Principal Software Engineer I - Platform Billing CorePosted today$46K–$183K

The opportunity

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…

What you'll do

  • Usage — Collect and process usage and cost data. This data is the foundation: of our billing and financial reporting.

  • Engine — Turn hourly usage data into customer invoices and revenue records.

  • Own complex billing and account management systems that span multiple services and cloud providers.

  • Build large-scale data pipelines for billing data ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.

  • Improve observability, incident response, and reliability of core billing: systems using modern DevOps practices.

  • Shape system architecture for scale and modularity. Guide service design, API structure, and data modelling.

What they're looking for

  • Work with SRE and Cloud teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Own PostgreSQL data architecture and performance. Focus on query speed, schema quality, and high availability.
  • Be the go-to technical reviewer for the billing core stack. Maintain: technical consistency and quality standards.
  • Mentor engineers and tech leads across the Billing organization. Help raise: the bar on design and operational standards.