Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

Cacheflow; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 178,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible vacation policy

Professional development stipends

Parental leave

Stock equity options

Job summary

Cacheflow in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer, focusing on the billing platform, to partner with various teams for shaping billing architecture and product monetization strategies.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in backend systems. The position offers a competitive salary range of $131,000 - $178,500, equity options, and many benefits including health coverage and wellness support.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer in production.
• Experience architecting billing or payment systems for a B2B SaaS company.
• Understanding of modern billing models and system integrations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Finance, and Engineering on billing architecture.
• Design the components of a modern billing platform including events and metrics.
• Ensure billing systems are operationally trustworthy.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Building RESTful web services

Relational databases

Distributed systems

CI/CD practices

Tools

Salesforce

NetSuite

Job description

Location

Hybrid - San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Job Summary

The Software Engineer, Monetization Platform serves as an engineer on the Product Platform Group with a primary focus on the systems that turn product usage, subscriptions, credits, commitments, and contracts into accurate customer outcomes and clean financial operations.

This person will help architect and evolve the core billing domain for Drata: usage event ingestion, billable metrics, pricing and packaging, invoice generation, entitlement enforcement, and the integrations that connect engineering to Accounting, Finance, RevOps, Salesforce, CPQ, and ERP systems like NetSuite.

They should be equally comfortable designing event-driven systems, shaping commercial flexibility with business stakeholders, and building operationally trustworthy software where correctness, auditability, and scale matter.

Modern billing is no longer just “charge a credit card once a month” — it is a real-time product control plane that must support evolving pricing models without turning the codebase into a fragile mess.

What you’ll do

• Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, RevOps, and Engineering leadership to shape Drata’s long-term billing architecture and commercial flexibility across self-serve and enterprise motions.
• Help design the primitives of a modern billing platform: usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, subscriptions, overages, and invoice workflows.
• Build on a system that can accurately meter product usage at scale, transform raw events into billable quantities, and support pricing changes without requiring constant product rework.
• Build and evolve the entitlement layer that separates pricing and packaging from product behavior, so feature access, limits, credits, and plan controls are programmable rather than hardcoded.
• Work closely with SFDC admins, CPQ owners, and Finance systems stakeholders to ensure quote-to-cash flows are coherent across CRM, product, billing, ERP, and downstream reporting systems.
• Ensure billing systems are operationally trustworthy: idempotent event handling, strong reconciliation paths, reliable notifications, auditability, and clear observability for engineers and business teams.
• Troubleshoot the hard problems: invoice discrepancies, usage drift, contract edge cases, entitlement bugs, migration failures, and cross-system data mismatches.

What you’ll bring

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, including meaningful time owning business-critical backend systems in production.
• Experience architecting billing, payments, pricing, or quote-to-cash systems for a B2B SaaS company at meaningful scale.
• Experience designing APIs and event-driven systems that ingest, validate, aggregate, and reconcile high-volume operational data.
• Understanding of modern billing models, including usage-based pricing, subscriptions, prepaid credits, commitments, overages, hybrid packaging, and enterprise-specific commercial terms.
• Experience working directly with Accounting, Finance, RevOps, and GTM systems where data quality, auditability, and timing matter.
• Experience integrating with systems like Salesforce, CPQ, NetSuite, payment platforms, and downstream finance/reporting tooling.
• Strong proficiency with:
  • JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming
  • Building and consuming RESTful web services
  • Relational databases, data modeling, and transactional workflows
  • Distributed systems and asynchronous processing
  • Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
  • Logging, telemetry, and production debugging
  • Git and modern CI/CD practices
  • At least one major cloud platform and modern infrastructure tooling
• A strong product and systems mindset: you can model the commercial domain cleanly, but you also know billing architecture is ultimately customer experience architecture.

Bonus Qualifications

• Usage-based billing platforms such as Metronome, especially concepts like usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, and programmable invoice workflows.
• Entitlement and monetization platforms such as Stigg, especially entitlements as a system of record for feature access, limits, credits, and packaging logic.
• Building systems that support both PLG/self-serve and enterprise sales motions on the same technical foundation.
• Audit logs, RBAC, webhooks, durable queues, and other patterns that make billing and monetization systems reliable and debuggable in production.
• AI-assisted development tools

You've had success in roles where you

• Architected or modernized a billing system that had to support real usage metering, invoice correctness, and flexible commercial models rather than a single static subscription plan.
• Built systems where raw product activity was transformed into durable billing inputs and surfaced in customer-facing or internal financial workflows.
• Worked through pricing and packaging changes without repeatedly hardcoding logic into application code.
• Supported models such as prepaid credits, subscriptions with overage, enterprise commitments, or hybrid contracts for different customer segments.
• Partnered directly with Finance, Accounting, and RevOps to close gaps between what the product did, what the customer bought, and what the company invoiced.

How we support you

• Shared Success: We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success.
• Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services.
• Financial Well-being: A comprehensive suite of financial benefits, including a 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and a range of discounted voluntary offerings to help you customize and strengthen your overall financial position.
• Family Support: We want to support you in life's most important moments, so we offer a paid Parental Leave policy after six months of employment. Employees also receive access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.
• Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, empowering you to invest in your continued growth. You’ll also have access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities.
• Time Off & Flexibility: We believe that to do your best work, you should get the time you need for rest, rejuvenation, and recovery. Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.

Compensation

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for this role is: $131,000 - $178,500.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's leveling and compensation—including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.