Senior Software Engineer - Control Plane (Hosted Foundations / Applications)

About the role

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Control Plane - Hosted team. You will take part in technical design and work in key functional areas of Elastic's Cloud offerings, coding, building solutions, debugging complex failure scenarios and prioritizing bug fixes and features. The team is distributed across the globe.

Key responsibilities

• Guide cross-team technical designs and help create a team-wide high-level architecture
• Lead best practices for development, ensuring a reliable, scalable foundation and an engaging user experience for customers
• Contribute to and lead technical plans and direction within the team and across other product teams
• Work with Support engineers to diagnose problems and advise Elasticsearch engineers on new feature design

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a track record of delivering high-quality code
• Previous experience providing pragmatic technical leadership for a group of engineers
• Knowledge of back-end languages such as Scala, Java or Go
• Technical depth in one or more SaaS-relevant technologies (orchestration, networking, containers, etc.)
• Passion for automation and quality

What we offer

• Base salary of EUR 76,000 to 98,400, with no variable component
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Parental leave of at least 16 weeks
• Volunteer time and matching donations for charity