Software Engineer, Billing

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Engineer, Billing

• Focus: Usage-based billing, metering pipelines, subscriptions/entitlements, Stripe integration, and ledger correctness

Description

Evolve the systems that power how Cursor charges and reconciles revenue across developers and enterprise teams. You’ll work end-to-end across the billing stack—from edge usage events and metering pipelines to invoiced amounts in Stripe, including entitlement enforcement and the ledger layer. This is a deeply technical IC role focused on billing correctness and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Implement usage and billing system changes end-to-end (UI updates, raw usage events, metering pipeline, aggregation logic, entitlement enforcement, and ledger/invoiced amounts in Stripe)

• Evolve the ledger system as the source of truth for balances, credits, overages, and adjustments with financial-grade correctness guarantees

• Integrate deeply with Stripe (subscriptions, usage records, invoices, webhooks) including mid-cycle plan changes, prorations, and failed payment recovery

• Build billing APIs and internal tooling to help product, finance, and customer success query customer state, issue credits, and investigate billing anomalies

• Improve observability across the billing pipeline (metering lag, reconciliation discrepancies, invoice accuracy) to detect and debug regressions quickly

• Partner with product, infrastructure, and finance teams to ship new pricing models with confidence and minimal operational risk

Requirements

• Experience shipping a usage-based billing system in production or working on billing systems in general

• Onsite requirement: ability to work in person at the San Francisco or New York office

• Strong correctness mindset to prevent customers from needing to manually review invoices

• Ability to balance speed with protecting revenue and customer trust

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $140,000–$225,000 USD (level and base salary determined case-by-case)

• Equity

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Short- and long-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Various other discounts and perks