LiveKit - Senior Backend Engineer, Billing & Monetization
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Requirements
• You have strong backend engineering experience designing reliable, scalable services and APIs (Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Stripe) • You’ve worked on billing, payments, subscriptions, or other financially critical systems, and understand the importance of accuracy and auditability • You think in systems and edge cases, anticipating race conditions, retries, proration scenarios, and failure modes before they impact customers • You are comfortable working with finance, support, and product stakeholders, translating complex technical behavior into clear outcomes • You have experience with relational data modeling and transactional integrity, and understand idempotency, reconciliation, and audit trails • You value observability and operational excellence, building systems that are diagnosable, monitorable, and resilient • You enjoy reducing manual toil through automation and improving internal workflows • You are motivated by building infrastructure that directly impacts revenue, customer trust, and business growth
Responsibilities
• Evolve our billing & monetization platform by ensuring accurate invoicing, reliable revenue capture, and a seamless customer billing experience • Design and build systems for plans, pricing, usage, discounts, credits, and refunds that support flexible packaging and rapid GTM experimentation • Improve financial correctness and auditability by strengthening reconciliation, idempotency, traceability, and error recovery across billing workflows • Enhance observability and reliability by ensuring monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics that detect revenue-impacting issues before customers do • Reduce support toil by building internal tools and automation that make adjustments, credits, and investigations fast and self-service • Partner with Finance, Support, GTM and Product to enable pricing agility and future scale by evolving architecture to support new pricing models, usage-based billing, and international growth • Document and operationalize billing workflows with runbooks and best practices to improve team confidence and response speed
Benefits
• Engineering Ranges $120K – $250K • Offers Equity • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Tell us about you and why you're excited to apply to this specific role at LiveKit • Tell us about a project you're proud of! • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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