Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Billing and revenue platforms sit at the core of modern SaaS, and this role stands out because it is anchored in consumption based pricing for AI products. In an ecosystem where monetisation increasingly depends on accurate usage signals, the work connects product instrumentation, pricing logic, and customer facing billing experiences into a single, auditable system of record.
For a SaaS engineering career, ownership of metering, credits, and pricing workflows builds rare leverage. It develops fluency in revenue critical correctness, traceability, and debuggability, while also strengthening cross functional collaboration with Finance, RevOps, and Product on decisions that directly affect margins and customer trust. The remit also spans backend services, data pipelines, and admin UX, a useful combination for engineers aiming to become platform leaders.
This is best suited to a senior or lead engineer who prefers end to end responsibility and is comfortable making tradeoffs explicit in partnership with non engineering stakeholders. It will appeal to someone drawn to high integrity systems and to the practical constraints of AI era SaaS, where cost controls and usage attribution are part of the product surface.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role:
Glean is seeking a lead engineer to drive the billing and revenue platform that powers Glean’s consumption-based pricing for our AI products. As a lead engineer, you’ll provide deep technical leadership and own critical parts of our billing stack end to end. You’ll work closely with Product, Finance, Data, and Go-To-Market to ensure every AI feature we ship is accurately metered, transparently billed, and margin-positive. At the same time, you’ll help design powerful, elegant abstractions that make it easy and safe for product teams to integrate with billing—from logging usage to surfacing billing insights in the admin console.
You will:
- Work hands-on to design and implement systems for usage metering, pricing logic, credits, and admin-facing billing dashboards.
- Provide technical leadership and vision across a broad billing surface area, spanning data pipelines, backend services, and web UX.
- Drive the evolution of our consumption / Flex pricing infrastructure in a fast-paced environment, with a high bar for correctness, reliability, and debuggability.
- Partner with Finance, Pricing, RevOps, and Product to translate pricing strategy into robust technical designs and workflows.
- Define and maintain guardrails for LLM and agent costs (e.g., limits, anomaly detection, margin monitoring) so product teams can ship AI features confidently.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers on the team.
About you:
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Experience building platforms and web interfaces, including frontend, APIs, and backend services.
- Meaningful experience with billing, payments, pricing, or other revenue-critical systems (usage-based or subscription); or you have built similarly high-integrity, auditable systems.
- Strong ability to drive technical direction, make tradeoffs explicit, and align cross-functional stakeholders around pragmatic decisions.
- An owner mindset and excitement about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer and business impact.
- Expertise in Golang, Java, Typescript, SQL is highly desirable.
- Experience with or desire to learn large language models, retrieval augmented generation, agents, and their cost structures is beneficial.
Location:
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office)
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
We’re committed to building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive workplace. We strive to attract and retain people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
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