# Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Hosted Infra)

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8166580?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_957b59af-3c1

## Description

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.

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.

**What You Will Be Doing**

- 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.

**What You Bring**

- 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.

- Experience building software with Golang. You are also comfortable reviewing others' code and offering constructive feedback.

- 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.

**Bonus Points**

- Production experience with any of: Terraform/OpenTofu, Puppet/OpenVox, 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.

**Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Linux systems
- Golang
- containerized workloads
- automation
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- configuration management

### Nice to have
- Terraform/OpenTofu
- Puppet/OpenVox
- Ansible
- Argo CD
- Argo Workflows
- CUE
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Live Patch
- Elastic Stack
- Graphite
- Prometheus
- Influx

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