Senior Engineer - Telecom Billing
About Skylo
Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites.
Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.
This role is located at Bangalore,India where we are onsite at least 3 days a week in the office.
Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer - Telecom Billing to design, implement, and optimize our billing systems that support telecom services. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining platforms that manage mediation, rating, charging, invoicing, and revenue assurance. This role requires both strong software engineering skills and deep domain knowledge of telecom billing and OSS/BSS systems.
How You Will Contribute
Billing & Charging Systems
- Design, develop, and maintain billing solutions for prepaid, postpaid, and hybrid telecom products.
- Implement and optimize rating and charging logic (voice, SMS, data, roaming, value-added services).Work with mediation systems to ensure accurate collection and processing of Call Detail Records (CDRs) and Event Detail Records (EDRs).
- Support real-time charging systems (OCS/CCS) and integrations with CRM and provisioning systems
Revenue Assurance & Compliance
- Ensure billing accuracy, reconciliation, and prevention of revenue leakage.
- Collaborate with finance and audit teams for regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., TRAI, FCC, GDPR).
- Implement controls for taxation, roaming settlements, and interconnect billing.
System Integration & Performance
- Integrate billing platforms with ERP, CRM, and payment gateways.
- Optimize performance for large-scale, high-volume transaction environments.
- Build APIs and services to support product launches and customer self-service portals.
- Implement monitoring and automation for billing workflows and financial reporting.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Work closely with product and business teams to support new pricing models, bundles, and promotions.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices in telecom billing engineering.
- Participate in architectural discussions and roadmap planning for billing modernization.
What We Look For
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in telecom billing systems.
- Hands-on experience with OSS/BSS stacks (Amdocs, CSG, NetCracker, Ericsson BSCS, Oracle BRM, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of CDR/EDR processing, mediation, rating, and charging systems.
- Solid programming skills in Java, C++, Go, or Python for backend systems.
- Experience with relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL) and data modeling for billing.
- Familiarity with microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of compliance and regulatory standards relevant to telecom billing.
Nice To Have
- Experience with cloud-native telecom billing solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Knowledge of 5G core network charging (CHF, PCF).
- Exposure to usage-based billing at scale for IoT/M2M services.
- Certifications in telecom OSS/BSS or cloud billing.
What We Offer
With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range benefits such as:
- Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program
- Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
- A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
- Once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of developing and running world’s first commercial, live direct-to-device satellite network and service
- Access to world-class team and talent across tech domains: software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite and network virtualization
- Open, transparent, inclusive culture that blends the Silicon Valley, Nordic and South Asia characteristics
EEO StatementSkylo is an equal-opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, parent or caregiver status, political affiliation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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