Senior Platform Productivity Engineer, Core/Infra

Elastic; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

RRSP matching up to 6% of earnings

Vacation days

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Platform Productivity Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will help make shared platform functionalities easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure, building foundational infrastructure and enabling developers across serverless, cloud, and on-premise deployments.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, design low-level abstractions with broad impact, and communicate complex concepts effectively to diverse collaborators.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
• Ability to craft APIs and reason through tradeoffs.
• Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in core Java and concurrency constructs; familiar with Java features.
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven); Gradle preferred.
• Experience working with large codebases.
• Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to large, impactful projects that evolve core infrastructure of Elasticsearch.
• Identify opportunities for automation to boost developer productivity and integrate agentic apps into workflows.
• Design and implement horizontally-scalable features and APIs.
• Tackle performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Improve operation and observability of cloud systems.
• Collaborate with the ES team, Elastic users, and open source projects.
• Support our support engineers with difficult problems.
• Own end-to-end operational investigations until issues are resolved.

Skills

CI/CD systems

API design

Algorithms & data structures

Java & concurrency

Build tools (Gradle)

Large codebases

Project leadership

Autonomy & async communication

Tools

Gradle

Maven

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Platform Productivity Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will help make shared platform functionalities easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure, building foundational infrastructure and enabling developers across serverless, cloud, and on-premise deployments.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, design low-level abstractions with broad impact, and communicate complex concepts effectively to diverse collaborators.