Overview

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is The Role

The Platform Billing team’s mission is to provide a simple, transparent, and flexible SaaS billing experience based on the consumption of cloud resources and other Elastic services. The Elastic Cloud service is operated at a global scale - across all top 3 public cloud providers, in more than 50 regions across the world, hosting mission-critical workloads for customers in every industry. The Billing team sits at the heart of Elastic’s business strategy, enabling the company to grow by developing capabilities like usage-based metering, consumption billing, and marketplace integrations.

Our team builds the systems responsible for billing our Cloud customers end-to-end. We collect millions of usage data points from distributed sources across AWS, GCP and Azure, which we use to calculate bills for our customers. We then make this information available to internal and external clients via API integrations and UI presentations.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help us make an immediate impact on our monetization strategy. You will work alongside a distributed team to craft billing models that drive the growth of our Cloud products. You will learn how to meter and bill distributed applications using the Elastic Stack. This role will require collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, and other Developers to achieve our goals.

What You Will Be Doing

• Implement features and execute on the roadmap for the Billing area of the Cloud. This includes working on the parts of the codebase that bring in monthly subscription revenue from thousands of Elasticsearch Service users.
• Build scalable solutions and expose them via elegant REST APIs to deliver the best payments experience for the Elasticsearch Service.
• Add features to the backend services in Python that uses Elasticsearch.
• Collaborate with other Elastic engineering teams to develop scalable, automated solutions that drive our SaaS business.
• Be hands-on with the codebase. Review work done by your peers, and provide constructive feedback.
• Work on crafting a stable, scalable, and reliable ingestion pipeline built using Elastic products to harvest usage data from multiple products.
• Use Elasticsearch and Kibana to aggregate data for billing and usage reporting purposes.
• Participate in the operation of an always-on service, maintaining a high level of observability.
• Grow and share your interest in technical outreach (blog posts, tech papers, conference speaking, etc.).
• Participate in the team\'s on-call rotation.

What You Bring

• Proven experience (3+ years) with a track record of delivering high-quality code, preferably in Python.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux and shell scripting.
• Experience using Elasticsearch and/or Postgres in your application as a data store and analytics engine.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and communication between services.
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship.
• Experience or interest in working on SaaS billing or metering systems.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multitask, effectively manage your time, and collaborate with team members globally across time zones.
• Clear thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to learn and work independently
• Bonus: Experience of container runtimes (e.g. Docker) and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).

Additional Information - We Take Care Of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or perception, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Parental leave of 16 weeks

Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. If you need accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply within 24 business hours of submission.

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