Senior Software Engineer, Elastic
Platform, Control Plane, IAM
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
Be an early applicant
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Role
Who you are
- A record of software engineer excellence, delivering high-quality code to Production
- Solid experience with JVM-based programming languages
- 3+ years working as a backend engineer in the IAM space OR 5+ years working as a backend engineer
- Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
Desirable
- Scala and Golang experience
- Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS
- Hands-on Kubernetes (k8s) experience
- Hands-on experience developing software on the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch
What the job involves
- The Elastic Platform Control Plane team is looking to add to our growing team! We are looking for creative and passionate people who can help us evolve and operate our control plane services (Self-Managed, Hosted, and Serverless), and accelerate our adoption of Kubernetes
- Our distributed services constitute the orchestration layer of the Elastic Cloud and allow users to build new Elastic Clusters or expand existing ones
- Our services run on multiple cloud service provider platforms and are built on Docker, Kubernetes, Go/Scala/Java, and custom orchestration architectures
- We are a versatile group of engineers based all around the world, covering a multitude of countries and time zones. We tackle hard problems with creativity and resourcefulness
- We also have lots of fun along the way! This is your chance to join a team with outstanding chemistry and help us make meaningful contributions to Elastic’s future
- Day to day you will participate in coding, technical design, crafting solutions, debugging complicated failure scenarios, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features
- You will analyze the current systems strengths and limitations, and think of ways in which to refactor our services to improve our operations and quality of our service
- You will also participate in an oncall rotation to address operational events in a timely manner
- Contribute to the development and evolution of the IAM 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
Our take
Elastic develops the Elastic Stack, an open-source set of tools that includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, designed for data search and analysis. It also offers X-Pack, which adds commercial features to the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products.
This technology is widely used by major companies like eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix, along with over 17,000 other organizations. It is applied in various use cases, including application and website search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management (APM), security analytics (enhancing SIEM applications), and business analytics.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously held the position of Technology Director at GigaSpaces Technologies.
Simon Willnauer
(Co-Founder)Previously spent 13 years at The Apache Software Foundation, holding various positions such as VP Apache Lucene and Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member.
Uri Boness
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Architect and Head of Search at Orange11 for 7 years.
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