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About the role
Billing powers Elastic's Cloud business. It runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure in over 50 regions. We oversee usage-based metering, consumption billing, and marketplace integrations at global scale. The Billing Core team owns the data layer that makes billing correct, auditable, and automated. We work across two areas: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in backend or platform engineering, with solid skills in Python and PostgreSQL (schema design, performance, high availability)
- Proven experience improving reliability, observability, and incident response in production systems
- Solid background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including networking, IAM, monitoring, and deployment
- Ability to lead multi-quarter projects across teams — building consensus and delivering results
- Track record of mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and raising engineering standards
- Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is a real plus
More about this role
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. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
Billing powers Elastic's Cloud business. It runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure in over 50 regions. We oversee usage-based metering, consumption billing, and marketplace integrations at global scale.
The Billing Core team owns the data layer that makes billing correct, auditable, and automated. We work across two areas:
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.
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