28 days ago
Base Salary
$160k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex billing and account-management systems, including public APIs, internal APIs, and Elastic Cloud console experiences.
- Lead API design and evolution, including contract stability, versioning, and developer experience standards.
- Build full-stack features spanning backend services and frontend billing and account interfaces.
- Shape architecture, service design, API structure, and data modeling for scale and modularity.
- Improve observability, incident response, reliability, deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Serve as a technical reviewer, maintain engineering quality standards, and mentor engineers and tech leads.
- Lead cross-team roadmap and multi-quarter initiatives with Product, Design, Finance, SRE, and Cloud Infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call rotations and improve production readiness through automation, resilience testing, and alerting.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience with strong API design and development skills.
- Proven experience building and maintaining developer-facing or customer-facing APIs at scale.
- Solid cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and deployment.
- Experience with frontend technologies used in console or dashboard products, such as React, is preferred.
- Ability to lead multi-quarter projects across teams, build consensus, and deliver results.
- Track record of mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and raising engineering standards.
- Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence technical and non-technical partners.
- Experience working independently in a global, distributed, and asynchronous environment.
- Track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and improve code quality while owning outcomes.
- Eligible to work in Department of Defense Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $159,800-$252,800 USD, with an alternate $191,900-$303,500 USD range for select locations; the role has no variable compensation component.
- 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 for many roles at the distributed company.
- Generous vacation days and at least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Up to $2,000 in matching for financial donations and service, plus up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
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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.