Senior Software Engineer – Developer Productivity

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

We are seeking an experienced senior engineer to design and build an internal engineering intelligence and developer productivity platform. This platform will unify data across the software development lifecycle, generate actionable insights for engineering leadership, and create tooling that measurably improves developer experience, velocity, and effectiveness.

You will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of systems that transform raw engineering data into decision-making tools, operational dashboards, automated recommendations, and self-service developer workflows. This is a high-impact, highly visible role that blends distributed systems, data platform engineering, developer tooling, and organizational influence.

What You Will Be Doing

• Aggregates data from developer tools (source control, CI/CD, ticketing systems, observability platforms, AI coding tools, internal developer portals, etc.).
• Provides analytics on engineering productivity, workflow bottlenecks, quality signals, and resource allocation.
• Measures developer experience using both quantitative signals and qualitative feedback.
• Enables executive and team-level dashboards to track engineering performance and operational health.
• Produces automated insights, risk detection, and data-driven recommendations.
• Tracks adoption and effectiveness of emerging development technologies and automation.
• Supports self-service workflows, engineering scorecards, and service ownership metadata.
• Establishes measurement frameworks that align engineering output with business outcomes.

What You Bring 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time building internal platforms or developer infrastructure.
• Proven experience designing large-scale data or analytics platforms.
• Deep familiarity with modern SDLC tooling ecosystems (Git providers, CI/CD, issue tracking, observability, developer portals, etc.).
• Experience building metrics frameworks or operational analytics platforms.
• Ability to influence senior technical and business leadership.
• Strong product and systems thinking applied to internal developer tooling.

Bonus Points

• Experience building developer productivity or developer experience measurement systems.
• Background in data engineering, ML/AI applied to engineering analytics, or large-scale observability platforms.
• Experience working in organizations with 1,000+ engineers.
• Experience building Backstage or similar developer portal ecosystems.
• Experience building self-service engineering automation platforms.
• Experience with the Elastic stack

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ra