Senior Software Engineer – Fintech

Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineer building Cloudflare’s billing and financial infrastructure. Designing reliable microservices for metering, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and revenue recognition.

Posted 8/31/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating transactional microservices, with a strong focus on financial workflows, billing, and payments. Proficient in building distributed systems and ensuring high availability and security in production environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Proficiency In GoExperience With PostgreSQLStrong Understanding Of RESTful APIsExperience With Billing And PaymentsExperience Leading Technically Complex Projects

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsMicroservices DesignSQLData ModelingEvent-Driven ArchitecturesAsynchronous ProcessingTroubleshootingService SecurityFinancial Data Integrity

Soft Skills

CommunicationProject Ownership

Tools & Technologies

PostgreSQLRedisKafkaKubernetesDockerTemporal

Industry Keywords

BillingPaymentsSubscriptionsUsage MeteringInvoicingFinancial LedgersRevenue Recognition

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsDockerGoKafkaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesMySQLPostgresRedisSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and operate transactional microservices supporting metering, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and financial workflows
Drive initiatives from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation
Build fault-tolerant systems that safely handle retries, failures, concurrency, and high transaction volumes while preserving financial correctness
Monitor production services, investigate billing issues, improve observability, and address underlying causes of recurring incidents
Participate in architecture reviews, make pragmatic technical trade-offs, and improve engineering standards across the billing platform
Work with Product, Finance, Accounting, Support, and engineering teams to turn complex business requirements into maintainable solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend services in production
Proficiency in Go or another modern programming language, with an interest in working extensively with Go
Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, service security, and API standards such as OpenAPI, OAuth, or JWT
Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
Experience designing secure, highly available microservices in Linux or Unix environments
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing
Strong troubleshooting, communication, and project ownership skills
Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, usage metering, invoicing, financial ledgers, or revenue recognition
Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, or Temporal
Familiarity with reconciliation, idempotency, auditability, and financial data integrity
Experience leading technically complex projects across multiple teams
Offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without sponsorship for an export license

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal employment opportunity and commitment to diversity and inclusiveness
Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
Potential in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub during the offer-stage process