Senior Backend Engineer, Licensing

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop services that identify customer purchases, enable capabilities, and set applicable usage limits.

• Create, build, and sustain services and APIs that reflect customer purchases, product packaging, capabilities, and usage limits.

• Take ownership of features from the technical design phase through implementation, testing, rollout, and production operation.

• Design and enhance entitlement and usage workflows across both direct and MSP/MSPP account models.

• Collaborate with Product and other engineering teams to define interfaces and address licensing, packaging, and feature-access edge cases.

• Enhance tests, observability, design documentation, runbooks, and support playbooks for critical business services.

• Investigate production issues that span service boundaries and implement sustainable solutions.

• Review code and design proposals while providing context to fellow engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 7 years of professional software engineering experience in building and operating backend software.

• Proficiency in a modern backend programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.

• Experience in designing APIs and data models for critical business services or customer-facing workflows.

• Strong SQL and relational database skills, including data integrity and production troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with cloud-hosted services and containerized applications like Docker.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes or an equivalent orchestrator.

• Solid understanding of testing, observability, and accountability for production services.

• Strong sense of ownership and judgment when handling customer-impacting workflows where accuracy is essential.

• Ability to analyze edge cases and clearly communicate implementation risks and trade-offs.

• Quality-focused approach to testing, data integrity, production support, and technical documentation.

• Effective collaboration with Product and engineering partners; readiness to share knowledge and support teammates.

• Capacity to manage multiple tasks while keeping stakeholders updated.

• Experience in licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-related workflows, or feature access controls.

• Background in multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models.

• Familiarity with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, and event-driven or distributed systems.

• Knowledge of Kafka or other event-streaming systems, workflow tools like Temporal or Prefect, and production observability platforms.

• May require up to 5% travel.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time positions.

• Opportunities for career development.

• A collaborative environment that fosters creativity and innovative thinking.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance available for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Remote and hybrid work options based on role and location.

• An inclusive culture and an equal opportunity workplace.