Principal Software Engineer (Networking) - Platform

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. The Principal Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts and grow the global platform infrastructure to meet scaling demands.

Responsibilities:

• Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure
• Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, codebases, tooling and automations
• Collaborating in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focusing on operational perfection which uplifts others
• Preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritised problem management. Our on call rotation is spread well, and we address complex customer concerns too

Requirements:

• 10+ years in Software Engineering with product success in delivering Cloud network solutions
• Experience in public cloud, Go and managed Kubernetes services
• Success and lessons of experiences from striving for 'progress not perfection' in the name of Platform reliability
• Customer first approach in solving operational problems for both today and the future
• Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships
• You have designed and built a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform
• You have built Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it
• You have written product features or functions in Golang or other programming languages
• You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker)
• You have proven results in leading and improving cross-team engineering initiatives
• You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale
• You have diagnosed or designed, implemented and created solutions with the Elastic Stack
• You are experienced in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment
• You strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring