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Principal Software Engineer (Platform Billing Experience)

Elastic

Skills

Required

  • backend or
  • full-stack engineering
  • API design and development
  • AI
  • debug complex systems

Preferred

  • billing / metering / financial systems
  • frontend technologies
  • console or dashboard
  • React
  • cloud infrastructure
  • AWS / GCP / Azure
  • networking
  • IAM

Join Elastic, a leading company in the search and data analytics space. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will drive technical direction within the Billing Experience domain, design APIs, shape user-facing systems, and work across teams. You will have a hands-on role, improving the scale, reliability, and developer productivity of our billing services.

Conduire la direction technique au sein du domaine de l'expérience de facturation, en concevant des API et en façonnant des systèmes orientés utilisateur.

Responsibilities

  • Posséder des systèmes complexes de gestion de la facturation et des comptes, y compris les API publiques et internes, et les expériences de console Cloud.
  • Améliorer l'observabilité, la réponse aux incidents et la fiabilité des services liés à la facturation en utilisant des pratiques modernes de DevOps.
  • Comfortable working on your own in a global, distributed, and async environment
  • Solid background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including networking, IAM, monitoring, and deployment

Requirements

  • Ability to lead multi-quarter projects across teams — building consensus and delivering results
  • 8+ years in backend or full-stack engineering, with solid skills in API design and development
  • Proven experience building and maintaining developer-facing or customer-facing APIs at scale
  • Able to work across projects, collaborate across functions and teams, and adapt to changing team structures
  • Track record of mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and raising engineering standards
  • Track record of using AI to accelerate up development, debug complex systems, and improve code quality — while owning the outcomes
  • Eligible to work in Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills. Able to influence across teams and speak to both technical and non-technical partners

Preferred

  • Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is a real plus
  • Experience with frontend technologies used in console or dashboard products is a plus (React or similar)

Pay

USD 159,800 - 303,500

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