Software Platform Engineer, Elastic
Ingest, Go
Relocation is not offered
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
Relocation is not offered
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
- 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
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 values
- Customer, 1st: Our customers, our community, are the heart of everything we do. In our actions. In our products. And in the experiences we create for them. Our passion for our users translates into their passion for Elastic
- Home, Dinner: Elastic empowers you with the flexibility. Be home for dinner, go for a run midday, care for a sick child, or visit a parent. We get it
- Space, Time: It’s easy to get stuck in a day-to-day work pattern. We want you to take the time to dream the un-obvious
- IT, Depends: It can be complicated to make new things possible. When a question is asked, buckle up. Your journey will likely start with "it depends"
- Progress, SIMPLE Perfection: Perfection is not a destination. An Elastic that moves is an Elastic that survives, thrives, and stands the test of time
- 01.02,/FORMAT: Our products are distributed by design. Our company is distributed by intention. Appreciate the view, culture, and language of others
- As YOU, Are: We all come in different shapes with different interests and skills. We all have an accent. Celebrate it. Just come as you are. No need to invest neurons trying to fit an arbitrary mold
- HUMBLE, Ambitious: Challenge yourself and the people around you to do better. Don’t be an asshole. Be humble. Be ambitious. At Elastic, we are both
- Speed, Scale, Relevance: Elastic is a search company. We produce relevant, fast results that operate at scale. This is our DNA. It’s what defines us, binds us, and makes us unique
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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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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