The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
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.
What they're looking for
- Identify and champion improvements to security, stability, and cost efficiency before they become problems.
- + 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).
