Software Engineer II - UI

Summary

Join Elastic's Platform Control Plane team as a software engineer and contribute to the development and evolution of TypeScript codebases powering Elastic Cloud offerings. You will operate systems, collaborate with support engineers, proactively improve services, design and maintain software, debug production issues, and work cross-functionally on projects. The role requires software engineering excellence, experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, modern frontend frameworks, and strong analytical skills. Bonus points for IAM experience, SaaS technology depth, Kubernetes experience, and Elasticsearch knowledge. Elastic offers competitive pay, health coverage, flexible schedules, generous vacation, donation matching, volunteer time, parental leave, and a 401k match.

Requirements

• A record of software engineer excellence, delivering high-quality code to Production
• Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript programming languages
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks and libraries, such as React
• Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem solving skills

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the TypeScript codebases that power our Elastic Cloud offerings
• Operate our systems by participating in our oncall rotation solving incidents in Production
• Collaborate with Support engineers in solving customer problems
• Proactively improve our existing services for security, stability, and reliability
• Design, build, and maintain software supporting our cloud offerings and on-prem services
• Debug production technical issues involving distributed systems, virtualization, containers, and microservices
• Work cross-team and multi-functionally on solving problems crafting new features, and delivering projects within Elastic
• Work with a fully-remote distributed team of engineers located in Europe, Asia, and the Americas

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked as frontend engineer in the IAM space
• Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS
• Hands on Kubernetes (k8s) experience
• 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