8 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to large projects evolving the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
- Develop automation and integrate agentic applications into Elasticsearch development workflows.
- Design and implement horizontally scalable Elasticsearch features and APIs.
- Investigate and resolve complex performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues.
- Improve the operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
- Own technical projects and operational investigations from design through successful resolution.
- Collaborate with Elasticsearch teams, users, support engineers, and related open source projects.
- Lead cross-team engineering projects and communicate technical concepts across diverse collaborators.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices such as Buildkite, Argo CD, and GitOps.
- Experience designing APIs and evaluating technical tradeoffs.
- Proficiency with algorithms and data structures.
- Strong experience with core Java, its standard data structures and concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Knowledge of Java build tools such as Gradle and Maven, with a preference for Gradle experience.
- Experience working in very large codebases and leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
- Ability to own projects end to end, including technical design and development of required components.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, work autonomously, and drive decisions in a distributed team.
- Bonus experience with platform or developer productivity teams, low-level Java, JDK internals, observability and telemetry solutions, OpenTelemetry, Go, containers, or Kubernetes.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $133,100–$210,600, with an alternate $159,900–$252,900 range in select locations; the role has no variable compensation component.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched 401(k) contributions up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules as part of Elastic’s distributed work model.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Matching of up to $2,000 or local equivalent for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.