Senior Platform Productivity Engineer: Core/Infra

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation

Volunteer time policy

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Platform Productivity Engineer for its Elasticsearch team. You will help make shared platform functionalities easy to use, fast, maintainable, and secure, owning design to delivery across services, settings, and Painless scripting.

You will contribute to open collaboration with the ES team and Elastic users, implementing scalable features and improving observability in cloud and on-premise environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
• Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
• Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
• Core Java knowledge and concurrency constructs; familiar with standard library.
• Java build tool experience (Gradle, Maven).
• Experience with large codebases and leading large-scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to large projects that evolve core infrastructure of Elasticsearch.
• Increase developer productivity through automation and workflow integration.
• Design and implement scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Tackle performance and concurrency challenges and propose solutions.
• Improve operation and observability of cloud systems.
• Collaborate openly with Elastic teams, users, and open-source projects.
• Support engineers with hard problems and own end-to-end investigations.

Skills

CI/CD systems

API design

Algorithms & data structures

Java programming

Gradle/Maven

Large codebases

Project leadership

Asynchronous collaboration

Tools

Buildkite

Argo CD

GitOps

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Platform Productivity Engineer for its Elasticsearch team. You will help make shared platform functionalities easy to use, fast, maintainable, and secure, owning design to delivery across services, settings, and Painless scripting.

You will contribute to open collaboration with the ES team and Elastic users, implementing scalable features and improving observability in cloud and on-premise environments.