Software Engineer (Full Stack, Web Engineering)

Elastic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible location

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Volunteer hours

Charitable matching

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Software Engineer II on the Web Engineering team. You will own meaningful parts of the elastic.co experience, building features across the full stack from component design to deployment pipelines.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and production ownership in a distributed environment. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to release features, write clean code, and participate in on-call rotations and security triage, ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience building for high availability and real production scale.
• Proficient in React, TypeScript, and backend services.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Own features across the full stack from design to production.
• Ship features that improve site quality and performance in a distributed environment.
• Instrument performance, logging, metrics, and dashboards.
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations.
• Triage and resolve security vulnerability reports with root-cause analysis.

Skills

Full-stack development

React

TypeScript

Backend services

Node.js

Python

Go

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Code reviews

On-call

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

• Elastic.co is how Elastic talks to the world — it’s where potential customers first encounter our products and where existing ones come to learn more. As a Software Engineer II on the Web Engineering team you’ll own meaningful parts of that experience: building the features, systems, and infrastructure that keep the site fast, reliable, and effective at scale
• You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the company to ship features that improve the site’s quality and performance in a distributed, async-first environment
• Own features across the full stack from component design and backend services to deployment pipelines and ship production code end-to-end
• Instrument client-side performance (Core Web Vitals, error tracking, real-user monitoring) alongside backend logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and dashboards
• Partner with product managers, designers, and other developers to build, test, and release features for elastic.co
• Write clean, maintainable code and take ownership for its behavior in production
• Triage, investigate, and resolve security vulnerability reports — from reproduction and root-cause analysis to fix, validation, and coordinated disclosure
• Participate in code reviews for your team
• Diagnose and resolve production issues spanning client regressions to backend failures, and participate in an on-call rotation for an always-on service

Benefits

• Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
• Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
• Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
• Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
• Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
• Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).

The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who is equally comfortable writing React components, designing backend services, shipping to production, and owning what they build once it’s live — including on-call response and security triageExperienced in building for high availability and scalability at real production scale, including writing secure code, identifying vulnerabilities, and resolving security issues under pressureA proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomesProduction experience with Node.js, Python, or Go — enough to build, deploy, debug, and maintain backend services independentlyExperience owning CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent) end-to-end, including front-end build tooling, bundle optimization, and deployment automation without a dedicated ops team3+ years in a full-stack or frontend role, with proven TypeScript and React depth (component architecture, performance, state management) and hands-on backend experience shipping and operating production servicesAbility to work autonomously in a globally distributed team