Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Control Plane (SaaS)

Referral Board; Canada; Remote; CAD 198,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching and volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Control Plane - Hosted team. You will shape architectural decisions, craft scalable backend systems, and drive high-quality code across a distributed engineering organization.

You will collaborate with globally distributed teams, guide technical direction, and contribute to features that power Elastic's cloud offerings. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and customer‑focused UX across hosting platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience providing pragmatic technical leadership for a group of engineers
• Knowledge of back-end languages such as Scala, Java or Go
• Technical depth in technologies relevant for SaaS (orchestration, networking, containers)
• Passion for automation and quality

Responsibilities

• Guide cross-team technical designs and help create a team-wide high level architecture
• Lead best practices for development, ensuring a reliable, scalable foundation and an engaging user experience for our customers
• Contribute and lead technical plans and direction within our team and across other product teams in Elastic
• Be part of a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe
• Collaborate with other teams within Elastic to diagnose problems or advise on designing new features

Skills

5+ years experience as software eng

Technical leadership

Scala/Java/Go

SaaS technologies

Automation and quality

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Control Plane - Hosted team. You will shape architectural decisions, craft scalable backend systems, and drive high-quality code across a distributed engineering organization.

You will collaborate with globally distributed teams, guide technical direction, and contribute to features that power Elastic's cloud offerings. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and customer‑focused UX across hosting platforms.