# Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Portugal
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €67.000-€106.000 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Elastic's Platform Engineering Productivity team as a Principal Software Engineer. We're looking for a systems-minded engineer who is curious by nature, stays current with AI and emerging tools, and takes ownership not only of what the team builds, but also how the team works.

In this role, you will help ensure Elastic products are delivered to customers with high quality while making the software development and release process more efficient for engineers across the organization.

### Responsibilities

As part of the Engineering Productivity team, you will build and improve the frameworks, reusable components, and operational guidelines that help teams own the full software development lifecycle for their services. You may work across a wide range of initiatives, including:

- Improving CI infrastructure reliability and efficiency.

- Building and managing systems that produce releasable artifacts.

- Enabling ephemeral developer environments.

- Defining and enforcing release quality gates.

- Developing tooling and infrastructure for product deployment and release.

- Review code to uphold engineering standards, improve performance, and catch defects early.

- Collaborating with engineering and product to align on requirements, testing strategy, and delivery goals.

- Drive clear technical communication across teams and projects.

- Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisions.

- Mentoring engineers and fostering a collaborative culture around code quality and best practices.

### Requirements

- Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including build, package, test, release, and quality strategy.

- Deep experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.

- Experience with CI/CD systems, GIT and modern development and release practices.

- Experience with cloud infrastructure and developer platforms, including tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, configuration management tools, and major cloud providers.

- Experience designing scalable systems and improving developer productivity through tooling and automation.

- Ability to move fluidly across projects, priorities, and evolving team structures.

- Hands-on AI fluency, including integrating LLM APIs into production workflows and applying prompt engineering to domain-specific problems.

- A track record of improving engineering practices such as code review quality, standards, and team efficiency.

- Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.

- Enthusiasm for working with a globally distributed team and comfort in navigating ambiguity.

### 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

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Java
- Scala
- CI/CD systems
- GIT
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- cloud infrastructure
- developer platforms

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