Software Engineering Manager, Billing

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

Billing is mission-critical to Render’s success. Every service, database, and workload that runs on Render ends up on an invoice, and customers trust us to get that invoice right. As Senior Engineering Manager for the Billing team, you’ll lead the organization that makes sure customers are billed accurately, reliably, and transparently as Render scales.

You’ll set the multi-quarter strategy and own the technical direction, people, and execution behind Render’s usage-based billing systems: how usage is captured, how it flows through our data pipelines and third-party billing platforms, and how it lands as a correct charge. You’ll be Engineering’s senior partner to Finance, Product, and Customer Experience leadership, turning pricing, reporting, and customer needs into a roadmap your team can ship.

This role is for a seasoned technical leader who wants to build the organization, the leaders, and the systems that keep billing right as usage, pricing, and our customer base keep growing.

Lead and grow the Billing engineering team, which owns how Render turns platform usage into accurate charges: usage capture, data pipelines, third-party billing platforms (Orb, Metronome, Stripe, or similar), and invoicing

Own the roadmap for Render’s billing systems, from usage metering through invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reporting

Drive billing correctness and reliability: build the monitoring, reconciliation, and testing that catch errors before customers do

Partner with Finance, Product, and Customer Experience to align the roadmap with pricing, reporting, and customer needs

Hire and develop engineers to support planned team growth, while keeping the team’s focus clear as billing scope expands

Make key architectural decisions, balancing long-term billing platform investment against near-term pricing launches and fixes

Build a strong performance management and career development practice for a team that includes senior ICs

Strong people leadership — the top priority for this role

Hands-on enough to review code, prototype, and contribute directly when it helps the team

Comfort operating in ambiguity, with adaptability and a growth mindset

Proven experience building and scaling teams, ideally growing a group from a handful of engineers into a larger org

Experience managing engineers; including senior and staff engineers; hiring, and performance management

Hands-on experience with usage-based billing, payments, or other revenue-critical systems, including third-party platforms like Orb, Metronome, or Stripe

Ability to partner closely with Finance, Product, and Customer Experience without needing to fill those functions yourself

Strong business instincts, with the ability to connect engineering investment to billing accuracy, revenue, and customer trust

Background from either a startup or a larger company is fine. What matters is experience and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment

Experience leading a billing platform migration or a 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.

If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.