Platform Infra Engineer II – Go & Kubernetes

Elastic; Norway; On-site; NOK 739,000 - 950,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and yourFamily

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time (up to 40 hours)

Parental leave (min 16 weeks)

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a software engineer to ship code relied upon by engineering teams. You will learn from experienced engineers while owning real work and build expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and the cloud-native ecosystem.

The role is fully distributed, with collaboration over GitHub, Slack, and Zoom, offering opportunities to grow your specialty and contribute to scalable, high-impact services.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience writing services in Go or strong proficiency in another systems language with motivation to ramp up on Go.
• Working understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals (Pods, Deployments, Services, Operators).
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Curiosity about distributed systems and how services communicate at scale.
• Comfort working through ambiguity with support from more experienced engineers.
• A collaborative approach: welcoming feedback, sharing context, learning from teammates.
• Clear written and verbal communication in a distributed, async-first setting.
• Care about the quality of work shipped — testing, observability, and operability.

Responsibilities

• Build features and components for production services.
• Take ownership of well-scoped pieces of larger projects, from requirements through production.
• Propose technical solutions and bring them through to working code.
• Pair with senior engineers on harder problems and ask clarifying questions early.
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Helps operate the services we own and take part in the on-call rotation.
• Investigate incidents beyond the runbook and leave them better for the next person.
• Automate repetitive work through code.
• Communicate status and blockers early and often.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Cloud providers

Distributed systems

Collaborative

Communication

Async work

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a software engineer to ship code relied upon by engineering teams. You will learn from experienced engineers while owning real work and build expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and the cloud-native ecosystem.

The role is fully distributed, with collaboration over GitHub, Slack, and Zoom, offering opportunities to grow your specialty and contribute to scalable, high-impact services.