Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity

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

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive pay

Parity of benefits across regions

Resumo da oferta

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering Productivity team. You will own improvements to CI reliability, build systems that produce releasable artifacts, and enable episodic developer environments while driving quality and efficiency at scale.

You will mentor engineers, define release quality gates, and create tooling for deployment. Strong AI fluency and experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms are highly valued.

Qualificações

• Experience across the full software life cycle, including build, test, release, and quality strategy.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.
• Hands-on AI fluency and integrating LLM APIs into production workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and modern release practices.

Responsabilidades

• Improve CI infrastructure reliability and efficiency.
• Develop tooling and infrastructure for product deployment and release.
• Review code to uphold standards, improve performance, and catch defects early.
• Collaborate with engineering and product on requirements, testing, and delivery.
• Mentor engineers and promote code quality and best practices.
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation for systems and processes.

Conhecimentos

AI fluency

Mentoring engineers

Technical communication

Cross‑project adaptability

Distributed team collaboration

Full SDLC ownership

Ferramentas

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Descrição da oferta de emprego

What Is The Role :

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.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. 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

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health c