21 days ago
Canada (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Guide cross-team technical designs and help create team-wide high-level architecture.
- Write code, craft solutions, debug sophisticated failure scenarios, and prioritize bug fixes and features.
- Lead development best practices supporting a reliable, scalable foundation and strong customer experience.
- Contribute to and lead technical plans and direction within the team and across Elastic product teams.
- Collaborate with Support engineers to diagnose problems and advise Elasticsearch engineers on new features.
- Analyze the current system, including its strengths and limitations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering high-quality code.
- Previous experience providing pragmatic technical leadership for a group of engineers.
- Knowledge of backend languages such as Scala, Java, or Go.
- Technical depth in one or more SaaS-relevant technologies, including orchestration, networking, or containers.
- Passion for automation and quality.
Benefits
- Base salary with eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program; the role has no variable compensation component.
- Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Distributed work environment with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Matching of financial donations up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
- Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave.
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.