Principal CI/CD Engineer — Platform Productivity

Referral Board; Portugal; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Parental leave (minimum 16 weeks)

Charitable donation match up to $2000

Job summary

Elastic seeks a Principal Software Engineer I for CI/CD and Platform Engineering Productivity in Portugal. You will shape the release infrastructure, drive security-focused improvements, and mentor teams to ship faster and more safely.

You'll lead multi-quarter projects, review code, and maintain hands-on involvement with pipelines while guiding others to scalable solutions, balancing speed and reliability across environments.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in CI/CD and hardening release pipelines.
• Strong debugging across the full pipeline stack from tests to deployments.
• Hands-on with CI infrastructure and Kubernetes.
• Experience guiding multi-quarter projects across teams.
• Ability to push back on plans when needed with data-driven rationale.

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD across the org.
• Identify bottlenecks, friction, and security risks in the release process.
• Design and enforce scalable release gates for supply chain integrity.
• Direct engineers on complex, multi-quarter initiatives.
• Communicate clearly across teams and document architectures and processes.
• Act as Incident Commander on high-severity supply chain or release incidents.
• Raise engineering standards via code reviews and mentorship.
• Remain hands-on where impactful while enabling others to deliver.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

Debugging instincts

Cross-team collaboration

Leadership

Incident response

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

GitOps/ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Job description

Elastic seeks a Principal Software Engineer I for CI/CD and Platform Engineering Productivity in Portugal. You will shape the release infrastructure, drive security-focused improvements, and mentor teams to ship faster and more safely.

You'll lead multi-quarter projects, review code, and maintain hands-on involvement with pipelines while guiding others to scalable solutions, balancing speed and reliability across environments.