Senior Cloud IAM Engineer - Kubernetes & AI-Driven Backend

Elasticsearch B.V.; United States; On-site; USD 133,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible work locations

Generous vacation days

Donations matching up to $2000

Volunteer hours

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a backend engineer to contribute to the IAM codebases powering Elastic Cloud offerings. You will participate in coding, technical design, debugging distributed services, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. You will analyze current systems and refactor for improved operations and quality.

You will also join an oncall rotation to address on‑call incidents in Production. You will collaborate with Support to resolve customer problems, drive automation, and work

Qualifications

• Proven backend IAM experience with production systems.
• 5+ years backend experience or 3+ years in IAM space.
• Strong automation passion and code quality.
• Experience using AI to accelerate development and debugging.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and switch projects as priorities change.
• Eligible to work in DoD Impact Level 5+ cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the IAM codebases powering Elastic Cloud offerings.
• Operate our systems by participating in oncall rotations and resolving production incidents.
• Collaborate with Support engineers to solve customer problems.
• Proactively improve services for security, stability, and reliability.
• Design, build, and maintain software supporting cloud and on‑prem offerings.
• Debug production issues involving distributed systems, virtualization, containers, and microservices.

Skills

JVM languages

IAM backend

Automation

SRE oncall

Distributed systems

Asynchronous communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Elastic is seeking a backend engineer to contribute to the IAM codebases powering Elastic Cloud offerings. You will participate in coding, technical design, debugging distributed services, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. You will analyze current systems and refactor for improved operations and quality.

You will also join an oncall rotation to address on‑call incidents in Production. You will collaborate with Support to resolve customer problems, drive automation, and work