Description
As a Principal Software Engineer (Networking) - Platform, you will lead technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure. You will grow our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, codebases, tooling and automations.
Collaborate in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focus on operational perfection which uplifts others. Prevent repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritized problem management. Our on-call rotation is spread well, and we address complex customer concerns too.
You will participate in coding, innovating technical designs, crafting solutions, improving resilience, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. For example, debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless is part of our efforts, and we want your experience to contribute to a truly exceptional customer experience!
You will take an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure. You will grow our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, codebases, tooling and automations.
You will collaborate in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focus on operational perfection which uplifts others. Prevent repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritized problem management. Our on-call rotation is spread well, and we address complex customer concerns too.
You will participate in coding, innovating technical designs, crafting solutions, improving resilience, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. For example, debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless is part of our efforts, and we want your experience to contribute to a truly exceptional customer experience!
Success and lessons of experiences from striving for 'progress not perfection' in the name of Platform reliability. We want to hear about your customer-first approach in solving operational problems for both today and the future.
Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships. Examples of working in distributed teams or working remotely is desirable.
You have designed and built a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform
You have built Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it.
You have written product features or functions in Golang or other programming languages.
You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker).
You have proven results in leading and improving cross-team engineering initiatives.
You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.
You have diagnosed or designed, implemented and created solutions with the Elastic Stack.
You are experienced in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment.
You strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring.
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $189,800-$232,900 USD. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.