1 month ago
Greece (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own architecture and design for major Elastic Cloud application networking initiatives through general availability.
- Lead development of ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls at scale.
- Drive multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects involving multiple engineering teams.
- Investigate incidents, lead operational reviews, improve reliability and operability, and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Mentor engineers and serve as a technical advisor and subject matter expert across the engineering organization.
- Advise product management and senior engineering stakeholders on technical trade-offs, feasibility, and roadmap direction.
- Champion improvements to security, stability, and cost efficiency across the platform.
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 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 through testing, observability, and operability.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, work autonomously, communicate asynchronously and transparently, and influence decisions without formal authority.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes networking technologies including Cilium, external-dns, Envoy Gateway, and Crossplane.
- Preferred experience with at least one major cloud provider and its networking ecosystem: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Preferred contributions to CNCF or other open-source networking projects.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component, with a typical starting range of €84.300—€109.500 EUR.
- Distributed work model with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Matching donations up to $2000 or local-currency equivalent and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
- 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.