Senior Technical Content Editor, Elastic
Developer Programs
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Open for applications
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a candidate with broad platform knowledge gained through hands-on experience, strong editorial instincts, and a passion for helping teams transform complex technical ideas into content that resonates with developers
- You should have meticulous attention to detail, thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and bring both creativity and precision to everything you do
- This is an individual contributor role
- 5+ years of engineering experience, proficiency in at least one programming language, and a drive to continue learning the latest technology trends
- Experience writing and editing articles, with an ability to quickly diagnose whether a piece is accurate, well articulated, and developer-friendly. Fluent English is required
- Excellent editorial judgment and strong time-management skills to run reviews across multiple content streams
- Experience working autonomously and self-organizing
- Curiosity and adaptability to quickly become an expert on new tools and topics, with an overall love of learning
- Comfortable working with a highly distributed team and collaborating with many counterparts across time zones
Desirable
- Existing Elasticsearch expertise
- Experience with writing documentation
- A strong social media presence (connected to relevant audiences)
What the job involves
- The Developer Content Programs team's mission is to educate, inspire, and connect with the developer community
- The Technical Editor is a cross-functional role responsible for ensuring the accuracy, clarity, and relevance of Elastic’s developer-focused content across search, observability, security, and GenAI
- This editor will be the source of truth for technical quality, while supporting PMMs, internal engineers, social media managers, and other contributors to ensure that everything we publish is accurate, engaging, and aligned with our developer philosophy
- Write and build high-quality content—tutorials, deep dives, Labs articles, demos, and video explainers for elastic.co or our YouTube channel
- Technical content reviews across all formats: blogs, YouTube scripts and videos, short-form social posts, and more
- Help ensure that we, Elastic, show up in all of the above spaces in an authentic, developer-first way
- Validate correctness and clarify explanations in partnership with engineers and PMs across search, observability, security, and GenAI
- Guide writers, video creators, and contributors toward the desired level of detail and narrative structure
- Brainstorm and weigh in on emerging content strategies, especially on hot industry topics and the best storytelling angle
- Surface recurring questions or themes from various developer forums that should influence future content plans
- Strengthen our presence on Reddit and HackerNews, and help the team develop relevant, tonally appropriate promotion strategies
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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