Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity

Elastic; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 67 000 - 106 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Elastic, a global distributed software company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering Productivity team in Lisbon. The role focuses on improving CI infrastructure, releasing artifacts, and enabling developers with scalable, high-quality processes.

You will work across teams to define release quality gates, build deployment tooling, and mentor engineers while driving engineering excellence and clear technical communication in a fast-paced environment.

Qualificações

• Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle (build, test, release, quality).
• Deep experience in Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, Git and modern release practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and developer platforms (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Designing scalable systems and improving developer productivity via tooling.
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication.

Responsabilidades

• Improve CI infrastructure reliability and efficiency.
• Build and manage systems that produce releasable artifacts.
• Enable episodic developer environments.
• Define and enforce release quality gates.
• Develop tooling for product deployment and release.
• Review code to uphold engineering standards and catch defects.
• Collaborate with engineering/product on requirements and testing strategy.
• Drive clear technical communication across teams.
• Create and maintain high-quality technical docs.
• Mentor engineers and promote code quality and best practices.

Conhecimentos

Software lifecycle

Python

Go

CI/CD

GIT

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Cloud platforms

AI fluency

Ferramentas

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Join our Platform Engineering Productivity team as a Principal Software Engineer. We're looking for a systems-minded engineer who is curious by nature, stays current with AI and emerging tools, and takes ownership not only of what the team builds, but also how the team works. In this role, you will help ensure Elastic products are delivered to customers with high quality while making the software development and release process more efficient for engineers across the organization. If you think systematically, thrive in ambiguity, and enjoy enabling teams to build and ship software effectively at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

• Improving CI infrastructure reliability and efficiency.
• Building and managing systems that produce releasable artifacts.
• Enabling episodic developer environments.
• Defining and enforcing release quality gates.
• Developing tooling and infrastructure for product deployment and release.
• Review code to uphold engineering standards, improve performance, and catch defects early.
• Collaborating with engineering and product to align on requirements, testing strategy, and delivery goals.
• Drive clear technical communication across teams and projects.
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisions.
• Mentoring engineers and fostering a collaborative culture around code quality and best practices.

What You Bring

• Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including build, package, test, release, and quality strategy.
• Deep experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, GIT and modern development and release practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and developer platforms, including tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, configuration management tools, and major cloud providers.
• Experience designing scalable systems and improving developer productivity through tooling and automation.
• Ability to move fluidly across projects, priorities, and evolving team structures.
• Hands-on AI fluency, including integrating LLM APIs into production workflows and applying prompt engineering to domain-specific problems.
• A track record of improving engineering practices such as code review quality, standards, and team efficiency.
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Enthusiasm for working with a globally distributed team and comfort in navigating ambiguity.

Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets. The typical starting salary range for this role is: €67.000 - €106.000 EUR Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity Lisbon, Portuguese Republic, PT