Software Engineer, Elastic
Platform, Billing, Marketplaces, Python
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Job no longer available
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- 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)
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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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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
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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