Staff Software Engineer (Billing Platform)

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States

Salary: $236K–$339.2K annually

Company

Snowflake provides a cloud data platform and develops AI-enabled data products.

What you will do

• Drive multi-team billing initiatives from ambiguous business problems through design, launch, and operation, setting technical direction for other engineers.
• Build systems that meter, rate, reconcile, invoice, and report usage across Snowflake services, clouds, and regions.
• Shape metering and pricing for Cortex AI, Snowflake Intelligence, Apps, token-based inference, agent workflows, and AI-native subscriptions.
• Own a billing domain such as metering, rating, invoicing, contracts, payments, fraud, or reporting, and influence adjacent systems.
• Ensure reliability and correctness through on-call participation, debugging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and systemic fixes.
• Mentor senior engineers and partner with Product, Finance, Legal, Growth, GTM Systems, Trust, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale production distributed systems, typically 10+ years or equivalent impact.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, including consistency, fault tolerance, idempotency, exactly-once processing, queueing, and stream and batch pipelines.
• Strong database and data-modeling fundamentals, including SQL, schema design, performance tuning, and large-scale operational realities.
• Proficiency in one or more of Java, Scala, Python, or Go, plus testing, observability, CI/CD, and incremental rollout practices.
• Experience driving outcomes across teams, framing disagreements, writing designs, making tradeoffs, and delivering systems to production.
• Depth in at least one billing-adjacent domain: metering, rating, invoicing, contracts, payments, revenue, or financial reporting.
• Hands-on use of AI as a builder’s tool for design, coding, debugging, and incident response.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineering partners, including Finance.
• Compliance with Snowflake’s confidentiality, security, and data security standards is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in billing, payments, metering, revenue, or financial systems at a SaaS or cloud company.
• Experience with fraud detection, abuse mitigation, or trust and safety systems in usage-based products.
• Experience designing pricing models for AI/ML products, including inference, fine-tuning, and agentic workloads.
• Experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data platforms, including Snowpark, Streams and Tasks, Iceberg, Streamlit, or Cortex.
• Contributions to internal AI developer-productivity tooling, agentic skills, or coding-agent workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on Snowflake’s own product and use Cortex AI as the foundation for a business-critical billing platform.
• Collaborate across Finance, GTM, Product, Legal, Growth, Trust, and engineering teams.
• Develop billing systems operating across every cloud, region, and service with strict correctness and auditability requirements.
• Work in a fast-growing environment that values experimentation, low-ego collaboration, challenging conventional thinking, and innovation.