Senior Elastic Engineer

Jolera; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Benefits package

Company events and recognitions

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Jolera is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to lead the design, optimization, and strategic evolution of Elastic environments supporting security and observability use cases. You will partner across teams to ensure scalability, resilience, and platform standards in enterprise environments.

The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, driving complex solution design, ingestions, dashboards, and deployment strategies in AWS-backed Elastic deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Elastic environments.
• Strong experience with Elastic Security and Elastic Observability.
• Expert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch architecture, including indexing, sharding, replication, search, and query performance.
• Deep expertise in capacity planning, cluster optimization, scaling, and platform hardening.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and continuous improvement of enterprise Elastic environments.
• Define and enforce best practices for scalability, resilience, lifecycle management, and operational excellence.
• Design production-grade CI/CD pipelines for Elastic deployments.
• Lead large-scale Elastic Agent and Fleet deployments with strong operational standards.
• Design ingestion pipelines, data models, and normalization standards aligned to ECS.
• Monitor and optimize cost drivers across compute, storage, ingestion, and retention.
• Mentor engineers and review technical designs for platform roadmap planning.

Skills

Elasticsearch architecture

Python/Java/Ruby

AWS

Linux administration

RBAC & security controls

Tools

Logstash

Kibana

Elasticsearch ingest pipelines

Job description

Role Overview

The Senior Elastic Engineer leads the design, optimization, and strategic evolution of Elastic environments that support advanced security and observability use cases. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, with responsibility for scalability, resilience, platform standards, and complex solution design across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and continuous improvement of enterprise Elastic environments

• Define and enforce best practices for scalability, resilience, lifecycle management, and operational excellence

• Support andoptimizeplatform strategy for high availability, retention, performance, and cost efficiency

• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complexplatform,pipeline, and data issues

• Design and govern ingestion pipelines, data models, and normalization standards aligned to ECS

• Build andoptimizeadvanced Logstash and ingest pipelines for high-volume and diverse data sources

• Lead large-scale Elastic Agent and Fleet deployments with strong operational standards for endpoint and observability use cases

• Drive integration of diverse security and observability telemetry sources with high data quality

• Design andoptimizeAWS-backed Elastic infrastructure, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, and related cloud services

• Design production gradeCI/CD pipelines.

• Leverage AWS services for snapshot strategy, retention, archival, and broader platform operations

• Monitor andoptimizecost drivers across compute, storage, ingestion, and retention

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code

• Design advanced Kibana dashboards, detection workflows, observability views, and executive reporting

• Partner with detection engineering, infrastructure, and leadership teams to define requirements and roadmap priorities

• Identifyopportunities to improve detection coverage, platform reliability, and observability maturity

• Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and contribute to platform roadmap planning

• Elastic Certified Engineer

• Elastic Certified Observability Engineer

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Elastic environments

• Strong experience with Elastic Security and Elastic Observability

• Expert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch architecture, including indexing, sharding, replication, search, and query performance

• ExpertiseinElasticsearch template optimization and relevancefine-tuning.

• Proven experienceoperatinglarge,highly availableElasticsearch clusters in production

• Deepexpertisein capacity planning, cluster optimization, scaling, and platform hardening

• Advancedproficiencyin Elasticsearch Query DSL and search optimization

• Strong programming and automation skills in Python, Java, Ruby, or similar languages

• Proven cybersecurity background with experience in threat detection, attack techniques, telemetry, and defensive operations

• Deep knowledge of Elastic security controls, including RBAC, encryption, detection rules, machine learning, and AI Assistant capabilities

• Extensive experience with data parsing, enrichment, and transformation using GROK, DISSECT, Logstash, and Elasticsearch ingest pipelines

• Experience with advanced detections, Watchers, dashboards, and observability views

• Strong experience supporting Elastic deployments in AWS-backed environments

• Working knowledge of AWS services,including S3, compute, networking, IAM, monitoring, and cost management

• Strong Linux administration skills in distributed data platform environments

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and communicate effectively across engineering and business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading platform modernization or migration initiatives

• Experience designing multi-cluster or multi-region Elasticarchitectures

• Experience building reusable engineering standards, patterns, and operational playbooks

• Experience mentoring engineers in enterprise platform teams

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Competitive benefits package
• Company events, recognitions, and celebrations
• Career development and growth opportunities

At Jolera, we are committed to creating a diverse, equal and inclusive. Our goal is to attract and retain the best talent while embracing diversity in all its forms. We value and respect differences in ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.