Distinguished Engineer - Infrastructure

Innovate with purpose

At BILL, we believe in empowering the businesses that drive our economy. By replacing outdated financial processes with innovative tools, we help businesses—from startups to established brands—make smarter decisions and gain control of their operations. And we don’t stop there: we’re creating the future of financial automation so businesses can spend more time on what matters.

Working here means you become part of a vision-driven team that’s ready to tackle challenges and build cutting-edge solutions. We value purpose, drive, and curiosity—and we thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Whether in one of our offices in San Jose, CA, Draper, UT, or working remotely, BILLders collaborate to deliver real impact for businesses that need more time in their busy weeks.

At BILL, we listen, learn, and lead—fostering collaboration and a drive for continuous growth. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that values each person’s unique skills and experiences. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we’d love to hear from you—you might be just what we’re looking for, whether in this role or another.

✨ Let’s give businesses more time for what matters.

Join BILL’s Infrastructure team as a seasoned architect and help drive innovation behind our platform that moves billions of dollars weekly. You’ll be at the heart of enabling SMBs to streamline their financial workflows while empowering our developers to build and scale effortlessly. As part of the Infra team, you'll lead the development of shared infrastructure, data platforms, and tools that create a world-class developer experience, using a platform engineering approach to drive agility, collaboration, and quality. In your first year, you'll take on the exciting challenge of shaping infrastructure across multiple AWS regions, applying cutting-edge software development practices to drive efficiency and innovation.

At BILL, we value reliability, celebrating "boring" by ensuring high availability and seamless operations. By making things run smoothly behind the scenes, we give our team the stability to innovate and push boundaries. If you’re passionate about building infrastructure that empowers others to succeed, we’d love to have you on board!

We are looking for a few key attributes in the ideal candidate:

• Leadership qualities: Proven thought leadership, persuasive abilities, passion for excellence, and humility to collaborate across teams.
• Hands-on experience: Self-driven engineer with a track record of building and scaling infrastructure for diverse workloads.
• Infrastructure modernization: Expertise in modernizing infrastructure to ensure stability and reliability for internal teams and customers.
• Strong fundamentals: Solid foundation in software engineering and distributed systems, with a focus on repeatability, safety, and availability.
• Diverse infrastructure experience: Exposure to online, data, and ML infrastructure is a plus.
• Problem-solving mindset: High standards of excellence, backed by experience, with an incremental approach to tackling big challenges.
• Autonomy: Ability to independently choose areas for deep technical exploration with a focus on impactful improvements.
• Collaboration skills: Skilled at working across teams to foster a collaborative environment that drives innovation.
  Passion for excellence: Commitment to continuous improvement and alignment with the company’s goals and values.
  
  

We would love to chat if you have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent — advanced degree preferred
• Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in e-commerce or fintech companies building and operating infrastructure at scale on AWS
• Hands-on in programming languages like Java, Python, or Go
• Proficient in cloud computing infrastructure and the underlying concepts
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Public-facing impact (publications, talks, articles, open source contributions, etc.) is a big plus

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What’s in it for you? 

Redefining how businesses automate their work is a fast-paced, exciting, and fun environment. But we also have benefits and perks to ensure the magic isn’t only experienced by our customers, but by our employees as well. 

Here is a preview of some of the amazing benefits here at BILL:

• 100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP)
• HSA & FSA accounts 
• Life Insurance, Long & Short-term disability coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11+ Observed holidays and wellness days and flexible time off 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
• Wellness & Fitness initiatives
• Employee recognition and referral programs
• And much more

Don’t believe us? Check out our culture, benefits, and teams on our career site, LinkedIn Life, or YouTube pages.

BILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. We believe our best ideas come from the unique stories, perspectives, and experiences of our team members. We welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to bring their authentic selves and contribute to our culture.

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