Site Reliability Engineer, Elastic
Hosted Infrastructure, Platform
$143.1-175k
+ Stock Program
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Be an early applicant
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$143.1-175k
+ Stock Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building software with Golang. You are also comfortable reviewing others' code and offering constructive feedback
- Production experience operating large-scale cloud compute (hundreds of hosts or more) via automated workflows
- Deep experience with Linux systems — you are at home in the terminal debugging at the OS level
- Proficiency working with containerized workloads in production
- A customer-first, systems-thinking approach to operational problems — you care about root causes, not just symptoms
- Comfortable working across time zones in both real-time and asynchronous contexts
- You contribute clear and maintainable documentation such as software designs, runbooks, architecture diagrams/decisions, postmortems, etc
- You communicate project status regularly and clearly, flag blockers early, and follow through on action items
- A sensible approach to AI integration — identifying where AI tools genuinely reduce operational burden and embedding them into workflows without adding complexity
Desirable
- Production experience with any of: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, CUE, Docker, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, or Ubuntu Live Patch
- Experience being on-call during incidents and using observability tools (e.g. Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx) to diagnose issues, quantify impact, and confirm mitigations
- Hands-on experience engineering solutions with the Elastic Stack
What the job involves
- We are Cloud Infrastructure SREs that integrate, scale, and evolve multi-cloud infrastructure across 4 Cloud Service Providers, 70+ globally distributed regions, and tens of thousands of hosts to power Elastic Cloud
- We tackle hard problems at scale through automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and purpose-built software that eliminates toil and improves reliability
- We're also a team that grows people as well as systems. If that challenge genuinely excites you, we'd love to hear from you
- Engineering software to automate large-scale systems — building internal tools and services, not just running scripts
- Optimizing the reliability and lifecycle of hosts across multiple cloud providers
- Strengthening our observability posture — crafting alerting and monitoring systems that drive incident prevention over incident response
- Scaling global infrastructure and evolving the infrastructure management processes to meet growing demand
- Contributing to code reviews, sharing your work, planning what we need to do next, and both mentoring and being mentored by teammates
- Being part of a balanced SRE on-call rotation: responding to incidents, improving runbooks, participating in postmortems, and championing reliability improvements
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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