Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Elastic's Search Relevance team as a software engineer contributing to Elasticsearch and Kibana product enhancements. Collaborate with a remote-first team, mentoring colleagues and providing code reviews. Build and improve search components, ensuring relevant and reliable results. The ideal candidate possesses experience with Java/Kotlin and JavaScript frameworks, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to learning. Elastic offers a competitive salary, stock options, 401k matching, and comprehensive benefits including health coverage, flexible work arrangements, generous vacation time, parental leave, and opportunities for volunteering.

Requirements

• Experience building software using modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, etc
• Experienced with JavaScript-based front-end web application frameworks
• Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent
• Measured and articulate 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

Responsibilities

• Build product enhancements for search components with contributions to Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Collaborate with and mentor teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences
• Be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback
• Collaborate with the team on features, 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
• Elastic's stock program
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings