Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Elastic's Search Developer Productivity team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the quality, efficiency, performance, and security of our search platform. You will build automations and tools, develop monitoring and alerting infrastructure, and collaborate with a remote-first team. Responsibilities include mentoring teammates, reviewing code, and breaking down projects into technical deliverables. The ideal candidate possesses experience in modern programming languages, automation, and monitoring/alerting, along with excellent communication skills. Elastic offers competitive pay, health coverage, flexible work arrangements, generous vacation time, and parental leave.

Requirements

• Possess a "low ego" and the desire to grow as part of a team
• Have experience building software using modern programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Kotlin, etc
• Be open to learning new languages and technologies
• Have experience building automations and the infrastructure for monitoring/alerting
• Possess excellent practical judgment; know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent
• Have measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills; work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into artifacts: issues, investigations, documentation, and onboarding material
• Have an interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies that can help you grow; be able to function well in an environment that drives towards change

Responsibilities

• Build automations and tools around security and reliability
• Set up monitoring and alerting infrastructure for developers from the Search team
• Enable developer productivity
• Collaborate with and mentor teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment
• Be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback
• Collaborate with the team on projects, breaking them down into technical deliverables
• Act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team

Benefits

• 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