Platform - Control Plane - Senior Software Developer

Job Description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join its Platform Control Plane team. This role focuses on evolving and operating Elastic Cloud's control plane services, including Self-Managed, Hosted, and Serverless offerings, while accelerating the adoption of Kubernetes. The successful candidate will be part of a distributed team, contributing to the development and maintenance of the Elastic Cloud offerings.Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the codebases that power Elastic's Cloud offerings.
• Operate control plane systems by participating in an on-call rotation and addressing customer support requests.
• Lead standard processes for back-end development with strong ownership.
• Contribute to technical plans and direction, collaborating with other product teams.
• Collaborate with Support engineers in diagnosing problems and coordinating with the Elasticsearch engineers the design of new features.
• Mentor new team members, both junior and senior ones.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements:

• Strong track record as a software engineer delivering high-quality code within teams.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design patterns.
• In-depth experience with a back-end programming language.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, from design to delivery.
• Ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Self-motivated and highly organized.

The role offers:

• 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