Software Engineer II- (Billing & Metering Team)

Elasticsearch B.V.; East Lindsey; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their Cloud Billing solutions. The role involves implementing features, building scalable solutions, and collaborating with distributed teams. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in Python and experience with distributed systems. This position offers competitive pay, flexible schedules, and health coverage.

Benefits

Health coverage

Flexible working schedules

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering high-quality code, preferably in Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement features for the Cloud Billing area.
• Build scalable solutions via REST APIs.
• Review peer code and provide feedback.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Tools

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Job description

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.

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.

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.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation.

What You Bring

• Proven experience 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.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

Elastic is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do.
• 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 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.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.