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    Staff Software Engineer, Billing

    Docker
    Seattle, WA
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    💰$170,350 - $275,550
    remote-firstAWSTerraformKubernetesCI/CDobservabilitySREbillingsenior

    Requirements

    • •8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles supporting production SaaS systems at scale
    • •Deep AWS expertise: ECS or EKS, RDS (Postgres preferred), networking, IAM, cost management
    • •Expert-level Terraform; designed reusable module patterns and set standards
    • •Experience building and owning observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, or similar) at an organizational level
    • •Strong familiarity with CI/CD systems — Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
    • •Kubernetes at an operational and architectural level
    • •Track record of identifying systemic risks and driving improvements across teams or organizations
    • •Security-first mindset: threat modeling, blast radius analysis, least-privilege by default, audit trails as a design requirement
    • •Strong written English communication skills
    • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

    What You'll Do

    • •Own and evolve the infrastructure supporting Billing Platform services: compute, storage, networking, CI/CD, and observability
    • •Design and maintain IaC (Terraform) for billing system infrastructure on AWS; set module patterns and standards for the team
    • •Build and own observability systems — metrics, logging, alerting — with a focus on billing accuracy and payment reliability
    • •Define deployment patterns and runbooks that work well in an AI-agent-assisted development workflow: clear rollback procedures, safe promotion gates, automated validation
    • •Partner with software engineers on service design — bringing infrastructure constraints and operational requirements into the conversation before code is written
    • •Identify systemic risks and drive improvements that span team or organizational boundaries
    • •Lead incident response for billing system issues, including participation in on-call rotation
    • •Mentor engineers across the team

    Nice to Have

    • •Experience with billing, payments, or financial systems infrastructure

    Benefits

    • •Remote-first by design with offices in Seattle and Paris
    • •Flexible schedule management
    • •Generous PTO, quarterly Whaleness Days, and end-of-year Whaleness break
    • •Home office support
    • •Technology stipend of US$100 net per month
    • •Annual learning and development stipend
    • •16 weeks paid parental leave after six months
    • •Equity for all full-time employees
    • •Comprehensive benefits including medical, retirement, and paid holidays
    • •Docker swag

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