About the position
The 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 and exploit or breach of our software supply chain. In addition, we provide tools, both customized and standard, to improve the development and delivery experiences. Many challenges are ahead of us. We are looking for someone to help us overcome them and maintain smooth delivery of our products, regardless of scale.
Responsibilities
- Building integrations, automations, and platforms that help engineers ship code quickly and safely.
- Reduce sources of toil in our software development lifecycle with software and infrastructure engineering practices.
- Participate in an internal host/on-call rotation to support our internal engineering customers.
- Contribute to our technical plans and direction, as well as across other product teams in Elastic.
- Be part of a distributed team of engineers from across the globe.
- Collaborate with other teams within Elastic when working on cross-team efforts.
- Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Requirements
- A record of software engineering excellence, delivering high-quality code to Production.
- Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
- Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar.
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem solving skills.
- The ability to learn quickly, handle ambiguity and solve big problems.
- Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience driving a product release/quality strategy.
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
- Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, Kubernetes, config management tools, containerization.
- A passion for working across team boundaries 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.
- An ability to cultivate a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and consensus-based decision-making.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with FedRAMP Moderate and/or FedRAMP High.
- Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch.
Benefits
- 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.
