Principal Cloud Networking Engineer (Ingress & DNS)

Elasticsearch B.V.; Ireland; Remote; EUR 98,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead Platform Infrastructure - Application Networking for Elastic Cloud. You will own designs for Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security at scale, driving reliability and security improvements across the platform.

This senior role requires architectural vision, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to mentor engineers while delivering high-impact, production-grade solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end and mentor multiple engineers.
• Deep expertise in application networking and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for major application networking initiatives from proposal to GA.
• Lead development of Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls at Elastic Cloud scale.
• Drive cross-organizational projects and guide delivery across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Application networking

Cloud-native architecture

Technical leadership

Incident response

AI in development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes networking

Cilium

Envoy Gateway

Crossplane

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead Platform Infrastructure - Application Networking for Elastic Cloud. You will own designs for Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security at scale, driving reliability and security improvements across the platform.

This senior role requires architectural vision, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to mentor engineers while delivering high-impact, production-grade solutions.