Principal Software Engineer (Platform Billing)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Platform Billing): Leading technical direction and execution for customer-facing billing systems across major cloud providers, with an accent on system design, operational excellence, and cross-team collaboration. Focus on designing and implementing large-scale data pipelines, shaping system architecture for scalability, and optimizing PostgreSQL data performance.

Location: Must be based in Spain, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, or United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a Search AI Company enabling real-time answers using data at scale, powering the hirify.global Search AI Platform used by over 50% of the Fortune 500.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end technical ownership of complex billing and account management systems across multiple cloud providers.
• Design and implement large-scale data pipelines for billing data ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.
• Drive operational excellence, improving observability, incident response, and reliability of core billing components.
• Shape system architecture for hirify.globality, scalability, and modularity, guiding service decomposition and API design.
• Own PostgreSQL data architecture and performance tuning, ensuring query efficiency and high availability.
• Mentor and influence engineers and tech leads across the Billing organization, elevating design and operational standards.

Requirements

• Extensive experience (8+ years) in backend or platform engineering with strong expertise in Python and PostgreSQL.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures in large-scale SaaS environments.
• Operational focus with proven experience improving reliability, observability, and incident response in production systems.
• Strong background in cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including networking, IAM, monitoring, and deployment patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to design and lead multi-quarter projects that span multiple teams or domains.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (C1 equivalent), able to influence across organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay and health coverage.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous vacation days and parental leave (minimum 16 weeks).
• Opportunity to increase impact with matching financial donations and volunteer hours.
• Work in a globally distributed, asynchronous environment.