Software Engineer, Elastic
Billing & Metering Team
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
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Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Elastic develops the Elastic Stack, an open-source set of tools that includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, designed for data search and analysis. It also offers X-Pack, which adds commercial features to the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products.
This technology is widely used by major companies like eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix, along with over 17,000 other organizations. It is applied in various use cases, including application and website search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management (APM), security analytics (enhancing SIEM applications), and business analytics.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously held the position of Technology Director at GigaSpaces Technologies.
Simon Willnauer
(Co-Founder)Previously spent 13 years at The Apache Software Foundation, holding various positions such as VP Apache Lucene and Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member.
Uri Boness
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Architect and Head of Search at Orange11 for 7 years.
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