Platform - Senior Software Engineer (Networking) - Overview
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What Is The Role
As part of the Platform Engineering department, the Traffic team is crafting, building, and improving the multi-cloud platform at scale for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. We grow and mature our distributed network services and solutions for multiple cloud service provider platforms. We are built on Kubernetes, Go / Scala, and custom orchestration architectures. In your daily life with us, you will participate in coding, innovating technical designs, crafting solutions, improving resilience, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. For example, debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless is part of our efforts, and we want your experience to contribute to a truly exceptional customer experience.
What You Will Be Doing
- Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure.
- Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, codebases, tooling and automations.
- Collaborating in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focusing on operational excellence which uplifts others.
- Preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritised problem management. Our on-call rotation is well-spread, and we address complex customer concerns too.
What You Bring
5+ years in Software Engineering with product success in delivering Cloud network solutions. You collaborate with engineers as an authority in identifying, implementing and delivering solutions. Experience in public cloud, Go and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous.Experience with platform reliability and a customer-first approach to solving operational problems for both today and the future.Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships. Experience in distributed teams or remote work is desirable.Bonus Points
Experience operating a SaaS product in a public cloud, ideally built with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (e.g., Crossplane or Terraform).Built or operated Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure across multiple cloud providers with automation to support it.Proficiency in Golang or other programming languages and containerized services (e.g., Docker).Experience in alerting and major incident management using metrics systems (e.g., Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx).System administration experience with Linux on distributed systems at scale.Experience with the Elastic Stack.Experience in a self-organizing, globally distributed team environment and in coaching or mentoring teammates.Additional Information - We Take Care Of Our People
As a distributed company, Elastic values diversity and strives to balance great work with great life. We offer benefits that vary by region but include :
Competitive pay based on the work you do, not your previous salaryHealth coverage for you and your family in many locationsFlexible locations and schedules for many rolesGenerous vacation days each yearDonations matched up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for charitable contributionsUp to 40 hours per year for volunteer projectsParental leave with generous termsElastic is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law. We provide accommodations upon request during the application process via
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