Software Engineer II - Engineering Productivity - Platform

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 Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

The Platform Engineering Productivity team provides the foundation for Elastic teams to develop, build, test, and release their software at scale. We empower them to be efficient and independent by providing realistic and reliable developer environments. We’re continuously evolving our workflow and increasingly pushing boundaries toward Continuous Delivery and Continuous Quality models. Not only this, but we are also working on delivering secure solutions to our customers by overcoming vulnerabilities introduced into our cloud and CI/CD environments via third-party dependencies that could lead to an exploit or breach of our software supply chain.

Our productivity infrastructure is powered by technologies such as Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Buildkite, common Cloud service providers (GCP/AWS), signing technology (GPG, Sigstore, and notarization), and languages such as Java, Go, and Python.

To grow and operate at scale, teams need control over the end-to-end software development cycle for their services. The Engineering Productivity organization acts as an enabling function, providing a framework, reusable components, and guidelines that teams can adopt and operate. As a member of Engineering Productivity, you may work on a broad range of projects that impact the entire software development lifecycle; anything from ensuring CI infrastructure is up and running, owning the processes to build releasable artifacts, creating ephemeral developer environments, gating releases on a range of key quality criteria, or building the tooling and infrastructure to deploy and release the products to customers.

Many challenges are ahead of us, and we’re looking for someone to help us tackle them and keep our releases non-events, regardless of our scale. Does this sound like you?

What You Will Be Doing

• A knack for problem-solving, picking things up quickly, handling ambiguity & tackling big problems
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience executing a product release/quality strategy
• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python/Go/Bash/Java/Scala
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills
• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, k8s, config management tools, Docker
• A passion for working across the org and interacting with internal customers
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship
• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment
• Humble and ambitious attitude

What You Bring

• A knack for problem-solving, picking things up quickly, handling ambiguity & tackling big problems
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience executing a product release/quality strategy
• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python/Go/Bash/Java/Scala
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills
• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, k8s, config management tools, Docker
• A passion for working across the org and interacting with internal customers
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship
• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment
• Humble and ambitious attitude

Bonus Points

• Experience with Kubernetes and one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with Buildkite, ArgoCD, and other CI/CD technologies
• Independent and driven, you have invested in your interpersonal skills and know how to “get in the zone” to focus on solving problems

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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