Senior Software Engineer, Platform Billing Experience

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$133,100–$210,600 / yr
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Platform Billing Experience

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The Senior Software Engineer - Platform Billing Experience joins the Billing Experience team to manage the customer-facing layer of Elastic's cloud billing systems. This role involves owning and improving public and internal APIs while designing and building full-stack features for billing and account pages within the Elastic Cloud consoles. You will lead projects from design to delivery, contribute to API versioning and contracts, and improve service observability. Key technical requirements include experience with distributed systems, backend or full-stack engineering, and cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure. Proficiency in frontend technologies like React is a plus. The role addresses the complex business problem of managing usage-based metering, consumption billing, and marketplace integrations at a global scale for a cloud-based search and observability platform.

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AWS GCP Azure Full-Stack Engineering Distributed Systems React Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Alerting SaaS Billing Metering Incident Response

What you'll do

  • Own and improve public and internal billing APIs focusing on reliability and developer experience.
  • Design and build full-stack features for billing and account UIs within the Elastic Cloud console.
  • Lead small to medium projects end-to-end from initial design to final delivery.
  • Contribute to API design decisions regarding versioning, contracts, and consistency across consumers.
  • Improve observability and reliability of billing-facing services through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to production readiness for billing services.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years in backend or full-stack engineering with experience building and maintaining APIs.
  • Experience working on customer-facing or developer-facing products at scale.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and building for reliability and scale.
  • Background in cloud infrastructure including AWS, GCP, or Azure networking, monitoring, and deployment.
  • Experience with frontend technologies used in dashboards or console products (preferred).
  • Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems (preferred).
  • Eligible to work in Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments.
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