21 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve billing data pipelines for usage ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Design and build reliable, scalable Python backend services focused on correctness and data integrity.
- Own PostgreSQL schema design and query performance for billing data.
- Lead small to medium projects from design through delivery.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, observability, and reliability of core billing systems.
- Participate in code and design reviews and serve as a trusted reviewer.
- Mentor junior engineers through feedback, pairing, and design discussions.
- Work with Product and Tech Leads to shape priorities and technical direction.
- Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to production readiness.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Python and PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query tuning, and reliability.
- Experience building and operating production data pipelines or event-driven systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and designing for reliability and scale.
- Background with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure, including networking, monitoring, and deployment basics.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to solve ambiguous problems and deliver well-considered solutions.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is preferred.
- Ability to work comfortably in a global, distributed, asynchronous environment.
- 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 above cloud service environments.
Benefits
- Base salary with eligibility for Elastic’s stock program; the role has no variable compensation component.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Distributed work environment with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Financial donation and service matching of up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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.