2 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own designs for major Serverless control-plane initiatives from proposal through general availability.
- Lead multi-quarter projects involving dependencies across teams such as Elasticsearch and Kibana.
- Design, build, and evolve distributed systems that orchestrate and manage Serverless projects across cloud providers.
- Lead complex incident investigations and reviews, improve operational reliability, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical judgment and software development standards.
- Advise product management and senior engineering stakeholders on technical trade-offs, feasibility, and roadmap direction.
- Champion improvements to security, stability, and cost efficiency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience, including technical direction for complex distributed systems running in production at scale.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture, including systems that orchestrate other systems.
- Proficiency with Go and hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Experience operating highly available SaaS platforms, responding to incidents, and improving reliability.
- Demonstrated use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, move between projects and codebases, and work autonomously in a distributed environment.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams and levels without formal authority.
- Experience with FedRAMP or other regulated environments is a bonus.
- Practical knowledge of the Elastic Stack or Elastic products is a bonus.
- Experience with Kubernetes operators or Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes is a bonus.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component, plus eligibility for Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Distributed work with flexible locations, calendars, and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance and at least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Up to $2,000 in matching for financial donations and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
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.