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versus about
$176k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
52 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 52 roles with salary data.
The Principal Software Engineer I - Platform Billing Experience joins the Billing Experience team to drive technical direction for the customer-facing layer of Elastic's cloud billing systems. This hands-on role involves designing and evolving public and internal APIs, building full-stack features for billing and account pages within Elastic Cloud consoles, and shaping system architecture for scale and modularity. The engineer will utilize skills in backend and full-stack engineering, API design, and cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Key responsibilities include improving observability, incident response, and CI/CD pipelines while mentoring other engineers. The role addresses the technical challenge of managing usage-based metering, consumption billing, and marketplace integrations for a global cloud business, ensuring customers can easily understand and manage their billing data.
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