Control Plane - Self-Managed/ECK - Software Engineer II (Go, K8s)

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.

What is The Role

The Elastic Platform Control Plane team is looking to add to our growing team! We are looking for creative and passionate people who can help us evolve and operate our control plane services (Self-Managed, Hosted, and Serverless), and accelerate our adoption of Kubernetes. Our distributed services constitute the orchestration layer of the Elastic Cloud and allow users to build new Elastic Clusters or expand existing ones. Our services run on multiple cloud service provider platforms and are built on Docker, Kubernetes, Go, and custom orchestration architectures.

We are a versatile group of engineers based all around the world, covering a multitude of countries and time zones. We tackle hard problems with creativity and resourcefulness. We also have lots of fun along the way! This is your chance to join a team with outstanding chemistry and help us make meaningful contributions to Elastic’s future.

Day to day you will participate in coding, technical design, crafting solutions, debugging complicated failure scenarios, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. You will analyze the current systems strengths and limitations, and think of ways in which to refactor our services to improve our operations and quality of our service. You will also participate in an oncall rotation to address operational events in a timely manner.

What You Will Be Doing

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the codebases that power our Elastic Cloud offerings.
• Operate our systems by participating in our on-call rotation and addressing customer support requests.
• Proactively improve our existing services for security, stability, and reliability
• Design, build and maintain software supporting our cloud offerings and on-prem service networking
• Debug production technical issues involving virtualization, containers, and microservices
• Work with a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe
• Work cross-team and multi-functionally on solving exciting problems crafting new features, and delivering important projects within Elastic
• Collaborate with Support engineers in diagnosing customer problems.

What You Bring

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the codebases that power our Elastic Cloud offerings.
• Operate our systems by participating in our on-call rotation and addressing customer support requests.
• Proactively improve our existing services for security, stability, and reliability
• Design, build and maintain software supporting our cloud offerings and on-prem service networking
• Debug production technical issues involving virtualization, containers, and microservices
• Work with a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe
• Work cross-team and multi-functionally on solving exciting problems crafting new features, and delivering important projects within Elastic
• Collaborate with Support engineers in diagnosing customer problems.

Bonus points

• Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant to SaaS
• Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch
• Experience with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range