Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Platform Billing team at Elastic to provide a simple, transparent, and flexible SaaS billing experience based on cloud resource consumption. As a Software Engineer, you will work alongside a distributed team to craft billing models that drive growth of Cloud products.

Requirements

• Proven experience (3+ years) with a track record of delivering high-quality code, preferably in Python
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and communication between services
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship
• Experience using Elasticsearch and/or Postgres in your application as a data store and analytics engine
• Experience or interest in working on SaaS billing or metering systems
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work autonomously in a globally distributed team
• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment

Responsibilities

• Implement features and execute on the roadmap for the Billing area of the Cloud
• 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

Benefits

• 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
• Increase your impact - 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
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave