1 month ago
Norway (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own designs for major application networking initiatives from proposal through general availability.
- Lead development of ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls for Elastic Cloud at large scale.
- Drive multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects involving multiple engineering teams through delivery.
- Investigate complex operational issues and incidents, lead reviews, participate in on-call rotation, and improve service reliability and operability.
- Mentor engineers, serve as a subject matter expert, and advise product management and senior engineering stakeholders on technical trade-offs and roadmap direction.
- Champion improvements to security, stability, architectural clarity, and cost efficiency.
Requirements
- Experience building software and setting technical direction for complex distributed systems running at production scale, at Staff or Principal level or equivalent scope.
- Deep expertise in application networking and cloud-native architecture, including ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than only using off-the-shelf services.
- Ability to own projects end to end, including technical design and coordinating work across multiple engineers.
- Experience operating high-availability SaaS platforms, responding to incidents, and improving reliability over time, with attention to testing, observability, and operability.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, work autonomously, communicate clearly, and influence decisions without formal authority.
- Bonus: hands-on Kubernetes networking experience with Cilium, external-dns, Envoy Gateway, or Crossplane; experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP networking; and contributions to CNCF or other open-source networking projects.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules as part of a distributed-company work model.
- Generous vacation days and at least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Donation matching of up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
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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.