Senior Software Engineer, Elastic
Search, Extract & Transform
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
Posted today
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- Experience building software using Ruby and/or Python
- Previous experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and processes
- Previous experience with operational components of modern web applications including asynchronous job queues, daemonized services, and CI/CD pipelines
- Previous experience with open source
- Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent
- Measured and articulated written and spoken communication skills
- You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into correspondence: issues, investigations, documentation, and onboarding material
- An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies that can help you grow
- You can function well in an environment that drives towards change
- Experience with multi-modal data, including formats like PDF, HTML, Word docs. Also, general knowledge of tooling and transformer architecture around LLMs
What the job involves
- As a Search Senior Engineer at Elastic's Extract and Transformation team, you'll be working collaboratively in a distributed working environment delivering valuable features for the Elastic Search solution
- We’re seeking a versatile software engineer and communicator to help push the product and team to new heights
- The team is responsible for data ingestion from a wide range of content sources and our web crawler
- Contributing to the development of large-scale applications using multi modal data with LLMs
- Architect, optimize, and maintain pipelines for processing and analyzing various data, including PDF, HTML, and image formats
- You will collaborate with and mentor international teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences
- You’ll be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback
- You will collaborate with the team on features, breaking them down into technical deliverables
- You’ll act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team, working with data scientists and product teams to integrate AI-driven solutions
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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