1 month ago
Base Salary
$160k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex billing and account-management systems spanning multiple services and cloud providers.
- Build large-scale billing data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Improve observability, incident response, reliability, automation, resilience testing, and alerting for core billing systems.
- Shape scalable and modular system architecture, including service design, API structure, and data modeling.
- Partner with SRE and Cloud teams on deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD pipeline improvements.
- Own PostgreSQL data architecture and performance, including schema quality, query speed, and high availability.
- Act as the primary technical reviewer for the Billing Core stack and maintain engineering quality standards.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads and establish technical direction across the Billing organization.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Finance on roadmap priorities and feasibility.
- Participate in on-call rotations and ensure systems are production-ready.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
- Strong Python and PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, performance, and high availability.
- Experience improving reliability, observability, and incident response in production systems.
- Background in cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and deployment.
- Ability to lead multi-quarter, cross-functional projects and build consensus.
- Track record of mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and raising engineering standards.
- Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is preferred.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence technical and non-technical partners.
- Ability to work independently in a global, distributed, asynchronous environment and adapt across projects and team structures.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and improve code quality while owning the outcomes.
- Eligibility to work in Department of Defense Impact Level 4 or higher cloud service environments.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Typical starting base salary range of $159,800–$252,800 USD; select locations have an alternate range of $191,900–$303,500 USD.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules as part of Elastic’s distributed work environment.
- Generous vacation days and up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- Up to $2,000 matching for financial donations and service.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.