Control Plane - Senior Software Engineer (Ingress) at Elastic

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

The Elastic Platform Control Plane team is looking to add to our growing team! We are looking for creative and passionate people who can help us evolve and operate our control plane services, and accelerate our adoption of Kubernetes. Our distributed services constitute the orchestration layer of the Elastic Cloud and allow users to build new Elastic Clusters or expand existing ones. Our services run on multiple cloud service provider platforms and are built on Docker, Kubernetes, Go/Scala, and custom orchestration architectures.

We are a versatile group of engineers based all around the world, covering a multitude of countries and time zones. We tackle hard problems with creativity and resourcefulness. We also have lots of fun along the way! This is your chance to join a team with outstanding chemistry and help us make meaningful contributions to Elastic’s future.

Day to day you will participate in coding, technical design, crafting solutions, debugging complicated failure scenarios, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. You will analyze the current systems strengths and limitations, and think of ways in which to refactor our services to improve our operations and quality of our service. You will also participate in an oncall rotation to address operational events in a timely manner.

What You Will Be Doing

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the Go codebases that power our Elastic Cloud offerings.

• Build and maintain software supporting our cloud offerings and on-prem service networking

• Operate our systems by participating in our on-call rotation and addressing customer support escalations.

• Debug production technical issues inside involving virtualization, containers, and microservices.

• Be part of a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe that values fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment.

• Collaborate with other teams within Elastic when working on cross-team efforts.

• Collaborate with Support engineers in diagnosing problems.

• Collaborate with the Elasticsearch engineers in designing new features.

What You Bring

• A track record as a software engineer delivering high-quality code to production distributed systems.

• Experience with Go and/or other server-side programming languages.

• Determined with a passion for raising the quality bar.

• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem solving skills.

• Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS, specifically networking (DNS, TCP/IP).

Bonus Points

• Bonus: Practical knowledge of ingesting data into Elasticsearch.

• Bonus: Knowledge of Scala.