Senior Platform Reliability Engineer — Observability & Cloud

Elasticsearch B.V.; Canada; On-site; CAD 138,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Generous vacation days

Donations matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Platform Observability & Analytics engineer to own end-to-end delivery of complex projects and harden Elastic Cloud infrastructure. You will write Terraform, Python, and Go, participate in 24/7 on-call rotations, and review production changes to critical systems across multiple time zones.

You will mentor engineers, improve runbooks and documentation, and contribute to security-conscious infrastructure decisions while collaborating with a distributed

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience
• Proficiency with Terraform; comfortable owning large, multi-workspace configurations in a team setting
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python; comfort with Go is a plus
• Deep Linux systems knowledge and experience operating containerized workloads in production
• Experience carrying a 24/7 on-call rotation, resolving incidents under pressure, and writing RCAs that hold up under review
• A track record of delivering end-to-end projects of moderate-to-high complexity with minimal oversight and being a code/design reviewer
• Security-conscious mindset when architecting infrastructure
• Mentoring less experienced engineers and contributing ideas in team discussions
• Clear written and verbal communication across audiences
• Ability to work across time zones, in real-time and asynchronously

Responsibilities

• Owning end-to-end delivery of moderate-to-high complexity projects on the team’s roadmap, with minimal day-to-day direction
• Operating and hardening shared Elastic Cloud infrastructure (ECH, ECE, and ECK) as Infrastructure as Code - writing and reviewing the Terraform, Python, and Go that other engineers depend on
• Carrying a 24/7 on-call rotation: responding to incidents, driving them to resolution, and writing clear RCAs/postmortems that lead to lasting fixes
• Reviewing others' code and designs, and being a trusted second set of eyes on production changes to critical infrastructure
• Mentoring less experienced engineers, and proactively raising risks, ideas, and improvements in team discussions
• Improving runbooks, documentation, and operational processes so the on-call load gets lighter over time

Skills

Terraform

Python

Go

Linux

SRE

On-call

Code review

Security mindset

Mentoring

Documentation

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Helm

Vault

Teleport

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Platform Observability & Analytics engineer to own end-to-end delivery of complex projects and harden Elastic Cloud infrastructure. You will write Terraform, Python, and Go, participate in 24/7 on-call rotations, and review production changes to critical systems across multiple time zones.

You will mentor engineers, improve runbooks and documentation, and contribute to security-conscious infrastructure decisions while collaborating with a distributed