Join Cursor as a Software Engineer to enhance billing systems for millions of developers and enterprise teams.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
What you'll build
- Implement usage and billing systems changes end-to-end
- Evolve our ledger system for customer balances and adjustments
- Integrate with Stripe for subscriptions and invoices
- Build billing APIs and internal tooling
- Improve observability across the billing pipeline
Must have
- Experience shipping a usage-based billing system in production
Nice to have
- Opinions on metering architecture, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics
- Experience integrating deeply with Stripe
- Experience building or maintaining a financial ledger
- Care about correctness in billing
- Comfortable shipping features end-to-end
Practical constraints
- Onsite role: must be able to work in person at the San Francisco or New York office
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Software Engineer, Billing at Cursor focuses on enhancing the systems that manage billing and revenue for a vast user base, ensuring accuracy and scalability. Key skills include experience with usage-based billing systems, deep integration with Stripe, and a solid understanding of financial ledgers. This role is suited for a technical individual with a background in billing systems who can navigate the complexities of financial accuracy while collaborating with various teams. The position emphasizes a hands-on approach to building and maintaining critical billing infrastructure.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Cursor's careers page November 10, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Cursor: Remote.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 49% of 136 comparable mid backend roles in United States we track (median $140,000 across 57 companies).
- Billing appears in 0.4% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States; Stripe appears in 0.4% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Billing role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Cursor lists $140,000–$225,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Cursor is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Billing, Stripe, ledger.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Cursor targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Billing role at Cursor.
From the original posting
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BILLING
We're hiring a Software Engineer, Billing to evolve the systems that power how Cursor charges and reconciles revenue across millions of developers and enterprise teams. You will work across the billing stack, usage metering pipelines, subscription and entitlement systems, payment integrations, and the ledger layer, to make billing accurate, scalable, and transparent. This is a deeply technical IC role. It is not a finance ops role, and it is not a backend generalist role wearing a billing hat.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Implement usage and billing systems changes end-to-end, from updates in the UI and raw usage events at the edge to invoiced amounts in Stripe, including the metering pipeline, aggregation logic, entitlement enforcement, and ledger
Evolve our ledger system that serves as the source of truth for customer balances, credits, overages, and adjustments, with the correctness guarantees that financial systems require
Integrate deeply with Stripe including subscriptions, usage records, invoices, webhooks, and edge cases like mid-cycle plan changes, prorations, and failed payment recovery
Build billing APIs and internal tooling that product, finance, and customer success teams depend on to query customer state, issue credits, and investigate billing anomalies
Improve observability across the billing pipeline, metering lag, reconciliation discrepancies, invoice accuracy, so the team can quickly detect and debug billing regressions
Partner with product, infrastructure, and finance teams to ship new pricing models with confidence and minimal operational risk
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience shipping a usage-based billing system in production or working on billing systems in general.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Opinions on metering architecture, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics
Experience shipping a usage-based billing system in production and opinions on metering architecture, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics
Experience integrating deeply with Stripe, understanding its data model, and dealing with erroring webhooks
Experience building or maintaining a financial ledger and understanding why it's required
Care about correctness and making sure customers don't have to manually review their invoices
Able to hold the tension between "move fast" and "do not lose revenue or trust."
Feel comfortable shipping features end-to-end, from scaling up infrastructure to tweaking a UI component
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Onsite role: must be able to work in person at the San Francisco or New York office
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
Annual Salary:
$140,000 - $225,000 USD
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
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