Staff Engineer - Monetization
United States Digital Space LLC
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United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer, Monetization, to design and ship billing infrastructure, usage APIs, and related backend services at scale. You will lead end-to-end delivery and mentor teammates while collaborating with product and billing teams.
The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and architectural planning for a growing product catalog in a hybrid work model.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience designing and operating highly available, reliable data pipelines and distributed systems that process large volumes of data at scale.
- 5+ years building systems that collect, aggregate, and derive insights from large datasets.
- Experience delivering end-to-end projects from design to post-launch.
- Design for downstream users and ensure reliable, well-instrumented data pipelines.
- Implement testing and observability that drive value and reduce toil.
- Experience with relational and non-relational storage (MySQL, BigQuery, Dynamo, Cassandra).
- Experience with Pub/Sub style queues (NSQ, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis).
- Ability to leverage coding agents as part of daily workflow.
Responsibilities
- Design, ship, and own billing infrastructure, usage APIs, and backend services from design to production.
- Mentor and grow engineers through code reviews and pairing.
- Participate in on-call rotation and ensure system reliability.
- Evolve tools and pipelines for billing, usage reporting, and orderability.
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Job description
the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. the company’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
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Staff Backend Software Engineer, Monetization
the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company's edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing their applications as close to their end-users as possible - at the edge of the Internet.
The Monetization Platform team owns the systems that translate what customers do on the network into the commercial relationship they have with the company: billing infrastructure, usage APIs, usage reporting, and orderability. Customers rely on our usage data to understand their spend, forecast costs, and make purchasing decisions. Product teams build pricing models on top of it. It's a large responsibility, and a large opportunity to shape the financial infrastructure the company's next chapter is built on.
As a Staff Software Engineer you will lead the design and development of highly-available, scalable systems as the platform expands to support new product lines, more complex pricing models, and a usage surface that keeps growing.
- Design, ship, and own billing infrastructure, usage APIs, and backend services, from technical proposal and design docs through implementation, testing, production rollout, and on-call support.
- Use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow.
- Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on.
- Partner with a diverse set of stakeholders across engineering, product, business systems, and billing to align on requirements and deliver impactful solutions.
- Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs.
- Evolve the tools and pipelines that power billing, usage reporting, and orderability for the company's growing product catalog.
- Consider stability, performance, and scalability in your designs and in the guidance you provide to the team.
- Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Hands‑on experience designing and operating highly available, reliable data pipelines and distributed systems that process large volumes of data at scale - most Staff level engineers at the company have at least 7 years of related experience.
- 5+ years building systems that collect, aggregate, and derive insights from large datasets. You've shipped a forecasting or reporting feature that real stakeholders depended on and you've had to explain why the numbers were wrong.
- You drive projects, not just tasks. You've owned a multi‑week effort end-to-end: design doc through post‑launch.
- You design for the people downstream of your data. The engineer whose service silently ingested bad records for a week, the customer who got an incorrect bill, the on‑call engineer who had no idea what broke because there were no metrics on the pipeline. You've been the reason someone's numbers were wrong, and you've carried that into how you build now.
- Testing and observability as subtraction, not addition. You can name a metric you added that paid off - and one you'd delete now.
- Relational and non‑relational storage systems (MySQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Dynamo, Cassandra) experience.
- Pub/sub style message queues (NSQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis) experience.
- Coding agents as a daily driver, not reluctantly. This team uses them heavily.
- Experience with billing or finance systems (e.g. recurring billing engines, ratings engines, financial forecasting tools) and their data requirements.
- Expert on RESTful API design: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency, error semantics, pagination, OpenAPI. You've made one of these calls wrong in production and remember what it cost to clean up.
- Go development
- Cloud Technologies
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours (Pacific Time) and occasional nights and weekends as required for on call support
This position is open to the following preferred office locations:
- San Francisco, CA, USA
the company currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370 to 253,644
Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in the company’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.
- We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.
the company is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number ofopen source projects and initiatives.Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing
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