Software Engineer, Billing Platform - Remote - United States, Canada

About Vercel:

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Vercel enables customers like Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, Porsche, and Zapier to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

At Vercel, our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life.

About the role:

We are seeking a Platform Engineer with a specialization in billing infrastructure to join our Engineering team. Your focus will be on architecting and implementing core components of our distributed systems infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability for billing-related services. This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our billing platform and contribute to transforming the way we handle subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and internal features supporting customer success, finance, and billing operations.

What you will do:

• Architect and implement core components of our distributed billing infrastructure, focusing on service APIs and usage infrastructure for product teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions for scalability, fault tolerance, and accurate invoicing.
• Optimize system performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies in billing processes.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of tools for monitoring, logging, and debugging billing-related services.

About you:

• Possess at least 6+ years of experience in designing and implementing distributed systems, with a strong focus on billing infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and distributed computing concepts, particularly as they relate to billing operations.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. …