1 month ago
Spain (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction, architecture, and designs for major Elastic Cloud application-networking initiatives from proposal through general availability.
- Lead development of ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls at large scale.
- Lead multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects and guide them through delivery.
- Investigate complex operational issues and incidents, conduct reviews, participate in on-call rotation, and improve reliability and operability.
- Mentor engineers and serve as a subject-matter expert and technical advisor across the engineering organization.
- Partner with product management and senior engineering stakeholders on technical trade-offs, feasibility, and roadmap direction.
- Champion improvements to security, stability, 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 designing, operating, and evolving 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 experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams, work autonomously, and influence decisions without formal authority.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking, including Cilium, external-dns, Envoy Gateway, and Crossplane.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider and its networking ecosystem, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, is preferred.
- Contributions to CNCF or other open-source networking projects are preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles at the distributed company.
- Generous vacation days.
- Matching of up to $2000 or local-currency equivalent for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
Tech Stack
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.