Software Engineer, Elastic
Web Platform
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
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Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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
- 3+ years of full-stack development experience with modern web technologies
- Experience with frontend technologies like React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS
- Familiarity with backend development using Node.js, APIs, and database systems
- Understanding of web fundamentals including HTTP, REST APIs, and responsive design
- Experience with version control (Git), testing practices, and CI/CD workflows
- Familiarity with content management systems or headless CMS architectures
- Ability to work independently on well-defined tasks while seeking guidance on ambiguous problems
- Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn new technologies
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team environment
- Interest in mentoring others and contributing to a positive team culture
- Commitment to writing clean, maintainable code
Desirable
- Experience with Next.js, Express, or other Node.js frameworks
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerized applications, and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Understanding of performance optimization techniques
- Experience with design systems and component libraries
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and methodologies
- Experience with Elasticsearch or other search technologies
- Understanding of web accessibility standards
- Contribution to open-source projects
What the job involves
- Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Web Platform team, working on our flagship website, Elastic.co
- This full-stack role focuses on building and maintaining scalable web applications, services, and infrastructure that power exceptional user experiences
- You'll work collaboratively with a distributed team of engineers, designers, and product managers, contributing to both frontend and backend systems while mentoring junior team members and helping drive technical excellence across the platform
- Develop and maintain full-stack features for Elastic.co using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and backend technologies in the Node ecosystem
- Build data integration workflows, content management features, and web services with moderate complexity
- Contribute to frontend development creating responsive, accessible user interfaces
- Collaborate with design teams to implement user experiences that balance design vision with technical feasibility
- Own small to medium-sized components and features, working with some guidance from senior engineers on complex problems
- Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and learning from senior team members
- Contribute to API design and data architecture decisions within your areas of ownership
- Help identify and address technical debt in systems you work on
- Work closely with SRE teams on deployment processes, monitoring, and infrastructure optimization
- Participate in on-call rotation, learning to investigate beyond runbooks and drive incident resolution
- Collaborate and build relationships across teams
- Contribute to team planning processes and help break down project work
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 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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