Senior Go & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Elastic

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 133,000 - 211,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Stock program

401k match

Health coverage

Flexible location & schedule

Generous vacation days

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Kubernetes/Go Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team in Oregon. You will design, build, and evolve distributed infrastructure, focusing on serverless Elasticsearch across cloud providers.

You will own Kubernetes orchestrations and help developers stay productive through automation and tooling. You will work as an individual contributor and lead cross-team efforts, communicating technical concepts clearly and driving end-to-end delivery of

Qualifications

Strong Go knowledge with concurrency, idiomatic error handling, and generics.
Hands-on with containers and Kubernetes.
Experience designing APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
Able to own projects end-to-end and collaborate effectively.
Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development.
Ability to collaborate across functions and teams.

Responsibilities

Designing, building, and evolving the distributed systems that orchestrate and manage Serverless Elasticsearch projects across cloud service providers.
Owning the Kubernetes orchestration of Elasticsearch clusters in cloud.
Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure.
Improving automation and integration into development workflows.
Collaborating openly with the ES team, Elastic users, and open source projects.
Owning operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.