2 months ago
Australia (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build internal software, tools, and services in Golang to automate large-scale infrastructure.
- Optimize the reliability and lifecycle of hosts across multiple cloud providers.
- Develop alerting and monitoring systems that improve incident prevention and observability.
- Scale global infrastructure and improve infrastructure management processes.
- Participate in code reviews, planning, mentoring, on-call rotations, incident response, runbooks, and postmortems.
- Document software designs, runbooks, architecture decisions, and operational learnings.
- Identify and integrate AI tools that reduce operational burden without adding unnecessary complexity.
Requirements
- Production experience operating large-scale cloud compute environments with hundreds of hosts or more through automated workflows.
- Deep Linux systems experience, including terminal-based operating system debugging.
- Experience building software with Golang and reviewing code.
- Proficiency operating containerized workloads in production.
- A customer-first, systems-oriented approach focused on root causes and reliability.
- Ability to collaborate across time zones in real-time and asynchronous settings.
- Clear communication, project-status reporting, blocker escalation, and follow-through.
- Preferred experience with Terraform/OpenTofu, Puppet/OpenVox, Ansible, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, CUE, Docker, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Live Patch, observability tools, or the Elastic Stack.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000, or local-currency equivalent, for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
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.