21 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve public and internal billing APIs for reliability, correctness, and developer experience.
- Design and build full-stack billing and account features in Elastic Cloud consoles.
- Lead small to medium projects from design through delivery.
- Contribute to API versioning, contracts, and consistency decisions.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, observability, reliability, incident response, and production readiness.
- Participate in code and design reviews and mentor junior engineers.
- Help shape priorities and technical direction with Product and Tech Leads.
- Participate in on-call rotations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience with APIs.
- Experience building customer-facing or developer-facing products at scale.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scalability.
- Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, monitoring, and deployment basics.
- Frontend experience with React or similar technologies is a plus.
- Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is a plus.
- Strong technical judgment, communication, and ability to work through ambiguity.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development, debug systems, and improve code quality while owning outcomes.
- Eligible to work in Department of Defense Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments.
- Comfort working in a global, distributed, asynchronous environment.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component; the role is also eligible for 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 a distributed-company work arrangement.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Up to $2,000 in matching for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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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.