Staff Engineer, Billing

Stripe•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. In this role, you'll be joining a small, focused team with a large mandate: enabling businesses and Stripes to extend Stripe Billing exactly to their needs. Our users accomplish the vast majority of their goals with what Stripe Billing provides out of the box, but when they need to tailor billing logic to their unique business model, this team provides the tools and capabilities to do it. We are in the early stages of building an extensibility platform for Stripe Billing and are working toward general availability. Our work unlocks enterprise customers with complex, bespoke billing requirements — directly contributing to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. Our team brings extensibility to Stripe's Billing products, enabling merchants to customize billing logic — from discount calculations to invoicing workflows — through user-authored scripts and orchestration of Billing primitives We collaborate closely with Billing domain teams and Stripe's Extensibility platform teams to identify and build high-leverage extension points across the billing engine We have shipped at Stripe Sessions two years in a row — most recently launching five new extension capabilities along with script upload and observability tooling; you can explore our public docs at docs.stripe.com/extensibility

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of leading large, complex software projects that span multiple teams and organizations
Experience as a technical lead on a team building external-facing products for customers
Deep software architecture knowledge, including distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and resilient system design
Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive large initiatives forward across organizational boundaries — without direct authority
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including producing clear technical documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice To Haves

Experience in fintech, payments, or billing systems
Platform engineering experience — building tools, abstractions, or frameworks for use by internal engineering teams
Background in domain-driven design or building extensible systems (e.g., plugin architectures, programmable platforms, or scriptable workflows)
Experience iterating on an early-stage product from initial adoption through growth, including hardening a system for production at scale

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical architecture of Billing’s extensibility platform, setting patterns and standards that scale across teams
Identify high-leverage extension points across Stripe's billing system and partner with Billing domain teams to build them into their products as extensible, first-class features
Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex, novel problems — from initial design through production delivery — in an evolving product environment
Build resilient systems that handle failures gracefully, including novel failure modes introduced by user-authored logic running inside Stripe's billing engine
Drive adoption of Billing's extension capabilities by external customers and internal Billing teams, iterating based on real-world usage
Collaborate with Billing leadership, product managers, and Extensibility platform teams to define and execute the team's technical roadmap
Mentor engineers on the team and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration