Site Reliability Engineer, Elastic
Platform Infrastructure
$130.9-210.7k
Salary dependent on location
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Be an early applicant
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$130.9-210.7k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- Software Developer: You have a broad development background and are deeply proficient in at least one language. Our team uses Python, JavaScript, Clojure, and Haskell, but we work alongside engineers across the company using everything from Java to Go — the specific language matters less than the depth of your expertise
- Site-Reliability Engineering: We are fundamentally an operations team. We solve problems with code, but our core mission is keeping things running. Experience in an SRE or equivalent role is a strong indicator of fit
- Service-Oriented: You have multiple years of hands-on experience administering Linux systems, ideally at scale and in distributed environments. Experience helping operate a SaaS platform is a plus
- Infrastructure-as-code: You're comfortable automating production systems collaboratively — treating configuration as code, managing it through version control, and working with tools such as Docker, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Packer, Kubernetes, or your own well-crafted shell scripts
Desirable
- A drive to automate and monitor everything. If it can be automated, you'll find a way
- Experience building reusable software components; open source contributions (library, patch, documentation, or otherwise) are a bonus
- Comfort with a versioned, Git-based workflow driven by issues and pull requests
- Strong Linux fundamentals. You know your way around syscall tracing, TCP internals, init systems (sysvinit/runit/systemd), and aren't afraid to go deep when a problem demands it
- A passion for open source, whether through code, mailing lists, documentation, or community participation
- Experience thriving in a distributed, asynchronous work environment with strong written communication habits
- A genuine appreciation for diverse, globally distributed teams and a collaborative, inclusive approach to getting work done
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure team sits at the foundation of the Elastic product stack, enabling engineering efforts across the entire company
- We are software developers who specialize in managing state — CI pipelines, cloud resources, and cross-team integrations
- The Elastic Stack is built on our infrastructure, and we own everything needed to get it there
- Beyond that, we act as internal software consultants, putting our own products to work for Elastic's business
- Design and develop tooling that facilitates building, testing, and shipping the Elastic Stack
- Build and operate production services that power core aspects of the Elastic business, including downloads, Docker registry, maps service, and more
- Support internal adoption of the Elastic Stack for software development and analytics use cases
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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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
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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