1 month ago
Portugal (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and architecture for major Elastic Cloud application-networking initiatives from proposal through general availability.
- Lead development of ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls at scale.
- Lead cross-organizational, multi-quarter projects and guide them through delivery.
- Investigate incidents, conduct operational reviews, participate in on-call rotation, and improve service reliability and operability.
- Mentor engineers, serve as a subject-matter expert, and advise product and senior engineering stakeholders.
- Champion improvements to security, stability, cost efficiency, and architectural clarity.
Requirements
- Experience building software and setting technical direction for complex distributed systems 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 and guide work involving multiple engineers.
- Experience operating high-availability SaaS platforms, responding to incidents, and improving reliability, testing, observability, and operability.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, autonomous decision-making, and clear communication across distributed teams.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes networking using Cilium, external-dns, Envoy Gateway, or Crossplane; at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP; and contributions to CNCF or other open-source networking projects.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation days.
- Elastic matches 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.
- Distributed-company work environment.
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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.