Senior Software Engineer, Elastic

Go, Intake Services, Observability

CA$128.3-203k

This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Kibana

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Remote from Canada

Software that searches and analyses data in real time

Be an early applicant

Software that searches and analyses data in real time

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsSaaS

Be an early applicant

CA$128.3-203k

This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Kibana

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Remote from Canada

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsSaaS

Company mission

To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A positive attitude and a curious mindset
Expert level knowledge of Go, including advanced topics such as memory management, benchmarking and profiling
Strong knowledge in systems design
Strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
Experience developing high throughput, low latency services
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Ability to work independently in a globally distributed team
Willingness and ability to share knowledge with others and enable your peers

Desirable

Experience and knowledge in the observability space, including OpenTelemetry
Experience working with stream processing platforms such as Apache Kafka or cloud provider managed queues
Understanding how to design and implement SLOs
Experience working with various cloud service providers
Knowledge of Elasticsearch and/or Kibana
Experience participating in technical decision-making across different engineering teams
Experience in service operations

What the job involves

As a Software Engineer in the Observability Intake Services team, you will be part of a team developing high-quality observability products that are essential to the ingest flow of the Elastic Observability solution
The team’s main focus is on building and maintaining backend intake service components for cloud-managed and on-prem deployments and owning operational stability through extensive monitoring and SLOs
We have a focus on quality, performance, reliability, security and testability, as well as automation and continuous improvements
Work on technical designs and implementation for the observability intake services in Go
Be a hands-on contributor to the team’s services
Maintain, update, and improve existing code and dependencies while ensuring automated test coverage
Create and improve the development infrastructure using modern tooling such as Tilt and Terraform
Build a strong backend solution for the OpenTelemetry data flow
Design data formats for optimized data storage and query performance in Elasticsearch
Provide Pull Request reviews and strong technical guidance to your peers
Build SLIs and SLOs and participate in an on-call rotation for the services in the team’s ownership
Proactively participate in team conversations and contribute to a positive team culture
Collaborate with other parts of the company on cross team features and topics
Collaborate with the support team on customer requests, and engage with the community via pull requests, issues and discuss forums

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

Top investors

8% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

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

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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