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. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for major application networking initiatives, owning designs from proposal through general availability.
- Lead the development of Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls on a large scale for Elastic Cloud.
- Continuously identify and address issues related to performance, reliability, and operability.
- Lead multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects that other Elastic engineering teams rely on.
- Raise the operational quality of our services, lead complex incident investigations and reviews, participate in on-call rotation.
- Mentor and support engineers across the team, serve as a subject matter expert and trusted technical advisor.
- 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.
Requirements
- Experience building software, including setting technical direction for complex distributed systems running production at scale (Staff or Principal level, or equivalent scope).
- Deep expertise in application networking and cloud-native architecture.
- Knowledge of how to design, operate, and evolve Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
- Experience operating high-availability SaaS platforms, responding to incidents, and improving reliability over time.
- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams.
- Ability to work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team.
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 this role is €84,300 — €109,500 EUR.
Bonus Points
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes networking (Cilium, external-dns, Envoy Gateway, and Crossplane) and with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and its networking ecosystem.
- Contributed to CNCF or other open-source networking projects.