About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for major initiatives across the Serverless control plane, owning designs from proposal through general availability.
- Lead multi-quarter projects with dependencies across teams such as Elasticsearch and Kibana, and guide these projects through to delivery.
- Design, build, and evolve the distributed systems that orchestrate and manage Serverless projects across cloud service providers.
- Raise the operational bar of our services, lead complex incident investigations and reviews, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Mentor and support engineers across the team, level up our collective technical judgment, and set the standard for how we build software.
- Partner with and advise product management and senior engineering stakeholders on technical trade-offs, feasibility, and roadmap direction.
- Identify and champion improvements to security, stability, and cost efficiency before they become problems.
Requirements
- 8+ years building software, including setting technical direction for complex distributed systems running production at scale (Staff or Principal level, or equivalent scope).
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture, including designing systems that orchestrate other systems.
- Proficiency with Go, and hands-on work with at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).
- You have operated high-availability SaaS platforms, responded to incidents, and improved reliability over time.
- You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.
- You possess the ability to collaborate across teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
- You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
- You communicate clearly and can influence direction across teams and levels without formal authority.
Conditions
- 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 listed below. 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.
- These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
- An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
- 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 t