Platform - Engineering Productivity - Senior Software Engineer

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do amazing things with their data. From stock quotes to real time Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power critical systems. Elastic unites employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans over 100 countries.

The Elastic Stack is the unparalleled swiss army knife of search and analytics. It takes hundreds of engineers and a large infrastructure to keep its development on track. Critical pieces to the Stack are often unseen by the user --- the many applications that glue the business together. We need an engineer who's excited about building tools across teams that help us deliver software better.

About the Team

The Platform Engineering Productivity team provides the foundation for Elastic teams to develop, build, test, and release their software at scale. We empower them to be efficient and independent by providing realistic and reliable developer environments. We’re continuously evolving our workflow and increasingly pushing boundaries toward Continuous Delivery and Continuous Quality models. Not only this, but we are also working on delivering secure solutions to our customers by overcoming vulnerabilities introduced into our cloud and CI/CD environments via third-party dependencies that could lead to an exploit or breach of our software supply chain. In addition, we provide tools, both customized and standard, to improve the development and delivery experiences.

Many challenges are ahead of us. We are looking for someone to help us overcome them and keep the seamless delivery of our products non-events, regardless of our scale. Does this sound like you?

Our productivity infrastructure is powered by technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Buildkite, Terraform, CDKTF, Backstage, common Cloud service providers (GCP/AWS), signing technology (GPG, Sigstore, and notarization), and languages such as Java, Go and Python.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building integrations, automations, and platforms that help engineers ship code quickly and safely.
• Reduce sources of toil in our software development lifecycle with software and infrastructure engineering practices.
• Participate in an internal host/on-call rotation to support our internal engineering customers.
• Contribute to our technical plans and direction and across other product teams in Elastic.
• Be part of a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe.
• Collaborate with other teams within Elastic when working on cross-team efforts.
• Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What You Bring Along

• A record of software engineer excellence, delivering high-quality code to Production
• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python, Go, Java, or Scala
• Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Learning things up quickly, handling ambiguity & solving big problems
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience driving a product release/quality strategy
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills
• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, Kubernetes, config management tools, containerization
• A passion for working across team boundaries and interacting with internal customers
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship
• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment
• Humble and ambitious attitude.
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