Principal Cloud Networking Engineer - Ingress & Security

Elasticsearch B.V.; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 76,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elasticsearch B.V. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead Platform Infrastructure - Application Networking and shape the future of Elastic Cloud networking. You will drive architecture for Ingress, private connectivity, DNS and security controls at scale.

This role demands techncial leadership, deep distributed-systems experience, and the ability to guide cross-functional teams toward reliable and secure networking outcomes. You will mentor engineers and influence roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed systems running at scale.
• Deep expertise in application networking, Ingress, DNS and security controls.
• Ability to own projects from design to delivery with multiple engineers.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for major application networking initiatives end-to-end.
• Lead development of Ingress, private connectivity, DNS and security controls at scale.
• Guide multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects to delivery.
• Improve service operability through incident investigations and on-call participation.
• Mentor engineers and act as a trusted technical advisor across teams.
• Collaborate with product management on trade-offs and roadmap direction.
• Champion security, stability and cost-efficiency improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Application networking

Cloud-native architecture

Technical leadership

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

Asynchronous communication

Tools

Kubernetes networking

Cilium

Envoy Gateway

Crossplane

AWS/Azure/GCP networking

Job description

Elasticsearch B.V. seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead Platform Infrastructure - Application Networking and shape the future of Elastic Cloud networking. You will drive architecture for Ingress, private connectivity, DNS and security controls at scale.

This role demands techncial leadership, deep distributed-systems experience, and the ability to guide cross-functional teams toward reliable and secure networking outcomes. You will mentor engineers and influence roadmaps.