Senior Software Engineer, Elastic
Developer Tools, Golang/Rust
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
Open for applications
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- An interest in working across a range of projects and programming languages, with a particular focus on Go and Rust, is essential
- Prior experience with the Elastic product suite is not essential, but is beneficial
- 8+ years of software engineering experience working on backend systems or libraries
- Significant recent working experience of Go, Rust, and (ideally) other languages
- Knowledge of client-server networking, HTTP, and RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of developing software within an open-source environment
- Knowledge of industry best practices in software engineering
- A strong focus on usability and developer experience
- A genuine interest in technology and an active interest in exploring multiple programming languages
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- A willingness to work as part of a remote, globally distributed team
- Clear thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to learn and work independently
- A connection to technical communities through open source projects, blogs or talks (nice to have)
- An understanding of core AI principles and LLMs (nice to have)
- Prior experience of Elastic products (nice to have)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Developer Tools Team
- In this role, you will bring your expertise in programming languages and ecosystems to our distributed team of engineers from various technical disciplines
- You will help build, maintain, and support client libraries and framework integrations
- You will also have experience developing software in an open source environment as a lead maintainer
- The Developer Tools Team is primarily responsible for creating libraries, tools, and integrations that simplify and enhance the development of software backed by Elastic products
- Your role will involve building and maintaining such projects, engaging with developer communities, and contributing to both team-wide projects and cross-team collaborations
- You will be working on fully open sourced code that is embedded within user applications, so will need to understand the implications of writing software in the open, versioning and managing product releases, and interacting with users directly in a public setting
- You'll be developing, maintaining, and supporting libraries, tools, and integrations related to the Elastic Stack, working in a mixture of languages including Go and Rust
- You'll participate in the design and development of team-wide projects
- You'll support users through GitHub issues, forums, and official support channels
- You'll collaborate with maintainers of external projects to facilitate integration with the Elastic Stack
- You'll represent Elastic within relevant communities and ecosystems
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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