Software Engineer II - Platform Infrastructure (Orchestration)

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

The Elastic Cloud Platform powers Elastic's products in the cloud. Our teams take the undifferentiated heavy lifting off Elastic's engineering organization , building and operating the services that let other engineers develop, ship, and run software at scale.

As a Software Engineer II, you will:

• Ship code that engineering teams across Elastic rely on
• Learn from experienced engineers while owning real work
• Build expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and the cloud-native ecosystem
• Find your specialty and grow with the team

Responsibilities:

• Build features and components for production services
• Take ownership of well-scoped pieces of larger projects, from requirements through production
• Propose technical solutions and bring them through to working code
• Pair with senior engineers on harder problems and ask clarifying questions early
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions
• Help operate the services we own and take part in the on-call rotation
• Investigate incidents beyond the runbook and leave them better for the next person
• Automate repetitive work through code
• Communicate status and blockers early and often

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience writing services in Go, or strong proficiency in another systems language with motivation to ramp up on Go
• Working understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals (Pods, Deployments, Services, Operators)
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Curiosity about distributed systems and how services communicate at scale
• Comfort working through ambiguity with support from more experienced engineers
• A collaborative approach: welcoming feedback, sharing context, learning from teammates
• Clear written and verbal communication in a distributed, async-first setting
• Care about the quality of work shipped , testing, observability, and operability

Benefits:

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave