Principal CI/CD Platform Engineer — Secure, Scalable Releases

Referral Board; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer I for CI/CD within Platform Engineering Productivity in Ireland. The role focuses on shaping the roadmap for release pipelines, securing the supply chain, and directing multi-quarter initiatives that keep infrastructure ahead of scale and security challenges.

You will mentor, review code, and prototype solutions while maintaining hands-on involvement. This role emphasizes architectural leadership and high-quality documentation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and hardening CI/CD release pipelines.
• Proven ability to identify bottlenecks, security risks, and remediation paths across the pipeline.
• Hands-on with CI infrastructure and release tooling; comfortable guiding teams through complex changes.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmaps and technical vision for CI/CD and release processes.
• Lead cross-team initiatives to improve supply chain security and deployment reliability.
• Direct engineers on multi-quarter projects and ensure on-time outcomes.
• Provide clear technical docs and alignment across teams.
• Act as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain or release incidents.

Skills

CI/CD

Build pipelines

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Security

Incident Commander

Code review

Tools

Buildkite

GitOps

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer I for CI/CD within Platform Engineering Productivity in Ireland. The role focuses on shaping the roadmap for release pipelines, securing the supply chain, and directing multi-quarter initiatives that keep infrastructure ahead of scale and security challenges.

You will mentor, review code, and prototype solutions while maintaining hands-on involvement. This role emphasizes architectural leadership and high-quality documentation.