Search - Extract and Transform - Software Engineer I

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

As a Software Engineer at Elastic's Extract and Transformation team, you'll be working collaboratively in a distributed working environment delivering valuable features for the Elastic Search solution. We’re seeking a versatile software engineer and communicator to help push the product and team to new heights. The team is responsible for bridging the gap to external data sources, transforming them into readily accessible knowledge sources for both traditional and AI applications.

What You Will Be Doing

• Crafting a variety of data integrations to various third-parties with an emphasis on broadening our catalog of offerings
• You will collaborate with international teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences. You’ll be hands-on with the team and codebase.
• You’ll act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team, working with data scientists and product teams to integrate AI-driven solutions.
• We embrace open communication and challenge. We appreciate positivity and vigilance and strive for autonomy, trust, and personal and professional growth.
• Our backend stack is in Python, Typescript, Ruby and Java/JRuby. We welcome any language background with the expectation to become proficient in Typescript/Python quickly.

What You Bring 

• Experience building software using Typescript and/or Python
• Previous experience with open source.
• Excellent practical judgment. You know when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent.
• Measured and articulated written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into correspondence: issues, investigations, documentation, and onboarding material.
• An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and RAG is a plus.
• Frontend experience, especially with Typescript/React is also a plus.

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 ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:$92,500—$146,300 USDThe typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:$111,000—$175,600 USD

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 ou