Software Engineering Manager, Billing
Render · Remote: United States
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## Software Engineering Manager — Billing (Render) ### About Render Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The mission is to remove the tradeoff between hyperscaler power and developer-friendly simplicity—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on product instead of infrastructure. Render offers persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability—helping teams launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. ### About the Role **Billing is mission-critical to Render’s success.** Every service, database, and workload running on Render results in an invoice, and customers rely on Render to bill accurately, reliably, and transparently. As **Senior Engineering Manager for the Billing team**, you’ll lead the organization responsible for Render’s usage-based billing systems—setting multi-quarter strategy and owning the technical direction, people, and execution behind: - How usage is captured - How it flows through data pipelines and third-party billing platforms - How it lands as a correct charge You’ll be Engineering’s senior partner to **Finance, Product, and Customer Experience**, turning pricing, reporting, and customer needs into a roadmap your team can ship. ### What You’ll Do - Lead and grow the **Billing engineering team** (usage capture, data pipelines, third-party billing platforms like Orb/Metronome/Stripe, and invoicing) - Own the roadmap for billing systems from **usage metering → invoicing → reconciliation → financial reporting** - Drive billing correctness and reliability with **monitoring, reconciliation, and testing** to catch errors before customers do - Partner with **Finance, Product, and Customer Experience** to align roadmap with pricing, reporting, and customer needs - Hire and develop engineers to support planned team growth while keeping focus clear as billing scope expands - Make key architectural decisions balancing long-term billing platform investment with near-term pricing launches and fixes - Build strong performance management and career development practices (including senior ICs) ### What We’re Looking For - **Strong people leadership** (top priority) - Hands-on enough to review code, prototype, and contribute directly when needed - Comfort operating in ambiguity with a **growth mindset** - Proven experience building and scaling teams (e.g., growing from a handful of engineers into a larger org) - Experience managing engineers, including senior/staff engineers; hiring and performance management - Hands-on experience with **usage-based billing, payments, or other revenue-critical systems**, including third-party platforms (Orb, Metronome, Stripe, or similar) - Ability to partner closely with Finance/Product/Customer Experience without needing to fill those functions yourself - Strong business instincts connecting engineering investment to billing accuracy, revenue, and customer trust - Startup or larger-company background both acceptable—what matters is experience and ability to operate fast ### Nice-to-Haves - Experience leading a billing platform migration or pricing model change - Familiarity with financial reconciliation and reporting processes - Background in distributed systems or event-driven architectures - Experience building for developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevTools ### Benefits - **4 weeks** of pai
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