Platform - Software Engineer (CI Systems)

Elastic is an open source search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co

About the team:

You'll be joining a distributed team of software and platform engineers to have a multiplicative impact on other teams as we redefine CI/CD at Elastic. The CI team’s mission is to provide fast and reliable continuous integration services to over 850 Elastic engineers. We enable our product teams to deliver the high quality software that helps our users to Search, Observe & Protect.

Our platform is evolving, and so is our approach to CI – we're creating rich services that weave GitHub, Buildkite, Vault, K8s, Backstage.io, GCP, AWS, MacStadium Orka, and more together into a developer platform that is easy to understand for teams of engineers. We're forming a team focused on learning and continuous improvement.

What you will be doing:

• Building fast and resilient event-driven services for CI agent infrastructure at scale. We orchestrate compute across K8s, EC2, GCE, and Orka.
• Enhancing and creating tools and automation that solves problems while abstracting complexity away from the end user.
• Maintaining IaC like Terraform, Ansible, Containerfiles, Helm charts, and Packer templates and adapting them to frameworks such as CDKTF.
• Crafting clean and fast CI/CD pipelines that set an example for other engineers on how to build, quality-check, and ship code.
• Writing documentation that is inclusive, clear, and useful to engineers and operators of varying abilities and skill levels.
• Participating in On-Call support (e.g. PagerDuty) and incident response for the services you maintain and build.

What you bring along:

• You're comfortable with at least one programming language. You're quick to learn unfamiliar tools because you value the right tool for the situation over preference.
• You have 1-3 years tertiary, open source, or industry software development experience, and ideally some knowledge of Linux systems, networking, monitoring, and automation.
• You may have written good APIs, designed queuing and pub/sub systems, or crafted resilient services that can scale (and retry) when they need to.
• Clean code comes naturally to you, and you can advocate for when something needs to be DRY. You love to tinker, experiment and improve.
• You value developer experience, and might draw inspiration from other tools like rustc, Poetry, k8s, or gcloud.

 

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
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• 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 committed to diversity as well as inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to the principles of affirmative action. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. If you require any reasonable accessibility support, please email candid