3 months ago
Athens, GreeceSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the Elastic MCP server and its underlying infrastructure, primarily in Go
- Build the platform for universal agent skills, including portable formats, authoring and publishing tooling, and linting
- Establish correctness standards by supporting skills and tools with evaluations
- Design and deliver integrations for third-party AI ecosystems in collaboration with product teams and external partners
- Contribute to the Elastic CLI to improve developer and agent efficiency
- Develop, maintain, and support Elastic Stack libraries, tools, and integrations using Go, Rust, and other languages
- Contribute product thinking and help determine what the team should build and why
- Engage with developer communities and support cross-team and cross-functional initiatives
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience working on backend systems, services, or libraries
- Proficiency with AI/ML frameworks and a working understanding of LLMs, agents, agent skills, and MCP
- Significant recent experience with Go; experience with other languages is beneficial
- Knowledge of client-server networking and HTTP
- Ability to contribute to unfamiliar codebases and learn multiple programming languages
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices
- Product thinking and strong interest in developer ecosystems
- Strong focus on usability and developer experience
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, including with customers and external partners
- Ability to work independently and as part of a remote, globally distributed team
- Infrastructure, telemetry, observability, open source, technical-community, third-party partner, or Elastic product experience is beneficial
Benefits
- Remote, globally distributed work environment with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations
- Generous vacation days
- Elastic matches up to $2,000 or local currency equivalent for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Categories
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.