Senior Software Engineer

About Chargebee:

Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform powering some of the fastest-growing brands around the world today, including Calendly, Hopin, Pret-a-Manger, Freshworks, Okta, Study.com and others. Thousands of SaaS and subscription-first businesses process over billions of dollars in revenue every year through the Chargebee platform.

Headquartered in San Francisco, USA, our 500+ team members work remotely throughout the world, including India, the Netherlands, Paris, Spain, Australia, and the USA.

Chargebee has raised over $480 million in capital and is funded by Accel, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Steadview Capital, and Sapphire Ventures. And we’re on a mission to push the boundaries of subscription revenue operations. Not just ours, but every customer and prospective business on a recurring revenue model.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD automation to design, build, and scale our platform. In this role, you will focus on designing and building scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure while improving deployment processes, automation, and platform reliability. Experience in performance engineering is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Design & Provisioning: Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Containerization & Orchestration: Manage, optimize, and scale containerized environments using Kubernetes and Docker across development, staging, and production environments.

CI/CD & Automation: Design, build, and enhance robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline code deployments, increase automation, and accelerate developer velocity.

Platform Reliability & Security: Drive system reliability, uptime, and security best practices across all platform components, implementing proactively monitored and resilient systems.

Developer Enablement & Continuous Improvement: Continuously refine infrastructure deployment workflows, documentation, and tooling to reduce friction for internal engineering teams.

Performance Engineering & Optimization (Bonus Focus): Partner with engineering teams to identify infrastructure bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and enable efficient, scalable performance testing.

Required Qualifications:

• 4–6+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Performance Engineering, with strong problem-solving and system design skills.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform , with expertise in building scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience in CI/CD automation, infrastructure automation, and building self-service platforms/tooling for engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, observability, and performance engineering ; hands-on performance/load testing experience is a strong plus.

Required Skills

• Cloud - AWS, Kubernetes, Docker,Terraform
• Programming
  • Java, Python
• CI/CD- Github Actions, Jenkins
• Observability- Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic
• Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Benefits

Want to know what it means to work for a company that genuinely cares about you? Check out just a few of the benefits we give our employees:

We are Globally Local

With a diverse team across four continents, and customers in over 60 countries, you get to work closely with a global perspective right from your own neighborhood.

We value Curiosity

We believe the next great idea might just be around the corner. Perhaps it’s that random thought you had ten minutes ago. We believe in creating an ecosystem that fosters a desire to seek out hard questions, and then figure out answers to them.

Customer! Customer! Customer!

Everything we do is driven towards enabling our customers’ growth. This means no matter what you do, you will always be adding real value to a real business problem. It’s a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of fun.

Ready to build the future of recurring revenue at scale?

Join the Chargebee tribe.