Software Platform Engineer, Elastic
Ingest, Go
Relocation is not offered
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Job no longer available
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Relocation is not offered
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- If you are looking to work on a high-impact, high-adoption product with a diverse and dedicated engineering team, please come join us!
- Production experience with Go
- Experience participating in technical conversations
- Operational experience with monitoring systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world
Desirable
- Bonus: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Bonus: Experience gathering data on the edge and shipping them to a central place
- Bonus: System-level knowledge of either Linux, Windows, or macOS
What the job involves
- Platform Ingest at Elastic is responsible for building tools to collect and ingest data easily, efficiently, and quickly
- Learn more about them on our website here or even better by testing the data ingestion user experience yourself on Elastic Cloud
- We are responsible for Elastic Agent as a unified data collector for elastic solutions, Fleet as a central management platform, Integrations platform as a marketplace experience to discover and build third-party integrations to bring data into Elastic stack, and data transformation and processing tooling of Logstash, ingest pipelines and runtime fields
- The Platform Ingest team is looking for an engineer to continue building the Elastic Agent deployment model on Kubernetes using the Operator pattern
- Maintain and evolve the current Beats platform, Elastic Agent, and Fleet Server, all written in Go
- Develop features for macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Design and build new features for those components
- Work with our support team to help customers
- Interact with the community, understand their needs, and help them use our products
- Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering teams, and documentation teams to execute product deliverables
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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