Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Elastic's Engineering Productivity team and help build, test, and release software at scale. You will be building integrations and automations, reducing toil in the software development lifecycle, and participating in on-call rotations. Collaborate with a global team to improve engineering standards and tooling. The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering background, experience with automation, and a deep understanding of the SDLC. Cloud experience and a passion for working across teams are also essential. Elastic offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• A record of software engineering excellence, delivering high-quality code to Production
• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python, Go, Java, or Scala
• Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem solving skills
• The ability to learn quickly, handle ambiguity and solve big problems
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience driving a product release/quality strategy
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills
• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, Kubernetes, config management tools, containerization
• A passion for working across team boundaries and interacting with internal customers
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship
• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment
• Humble and ambitious attitude
• An ability to cultivate a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and consensus-based decision-making

Responsibilities

• Building integrations, automations, and platforms that help engineers ship code quickly and safely
• Reduce sources of toil in our software development lifecycle with software and infrastructure engineering practices
• Participate in an internal host/on-call rotation to support our internal engineering customers
• Contribute to our technical plans and direction, as well as across other product teams in Elastic
• Be part of a distributed team of engineers from across the globe
• Collaborate with other teams within Elastic when working on cross-team efforts
• Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FedRAMP Moderate and/or FedRAMP High
• Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch

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