Principal Software Engineer I - Platform Billing ExperienceActive$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

  • Own complex billing and account management systems, including public APIs,: internal APIs, and Cloud console experiences.

  • Lead API design and evolution: set standards for contract stability, versioning, and developer experience across internal and external consumers.

  • Build and improve full-stack features in Elastic Cloud consoles, from backend: services to frontend billing and account UIs.

  • Improve observability, incident response, and reliability of billing-facing: services using modern DevOps practices.

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

  • Work with SRE and Cloud teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines.

What they're looking for

  • Be the go-to technical reviewer for the billing experience 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.
  • Work with Product, Design, and Finance to set roadmap priorities. Make sure: plans are feasible and aligned with business goals.
  • Take part in on-call rotations. Make sure systems are production-ready: through automation, resilience testing, and alerting.