8 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve distributed systems that orchestrate and manage Serverless Elasticsearch projects across cloud service providers.
- Contribute to large-scale projects evolving Elasticsearch’s core infrastructure.
- Own Kubernetes orchestration for Elasticsearch clusters in the cloud.
- Design and implement horizontally scalable Elasticsearch features and APIs.
- Automate developer workflows and integrate agentic applications into development processes.
- Resolve difficult performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues end to end.
- Improve observability and telemetry for Elasticsearch cloud systems.
- Collaborate with Elasticsearch teams, users, and open-source projects, and support engineers with complex problems.
- Lead cross-team projects and own technical designs and implementations from beginning to end.
Requirements
- Strong Go skills, including concurrency primitives, idiomatic error handling, and generics.
- Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes; Kubernetes controller experience with controller-runtime or client-go is a strong plus.
- Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through technical tradeoffs.
- Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
- Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
- Ability to own projects end to end, collaborate across teams, work autonomously, and communicate effectively in a distributed environment.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Java and standard Java library experience is a bonus, including knowledge of JDK internals, concurrency, garbage collection, database load, and caching.
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite or Argo CD, Java build tools such as Gradle or Maven, observability and telemetry solutions such as OpenTelemetry, or platform and developer productivity teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component, plus eligibility for Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched 401(k) contributions with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules as part of a distributed work model.
- Generous vacation days.
- Charitable donation matching up to $2,000 and 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.