Cloud - Senior Software Engineer - Networking
Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.
About the role
The Cloud Networking team develops and maintains services supporting internal network communication within our public services. Our team is responsible for ensuring service discovery and connectivity between clients and our services—both on multi-cloud environments and on-premises via our Elastic Cloud Enterprise solution.
We are looking for a software engineer to join our team and focus on the core features of our platform networking system and its components. Our globally distributed team has a broad scope and a balanced mix of levels, so there is plenty of room to be a mentor, to be mentored, to lead new features, and to advance both technically and professionally.
What you will be doing
- Build and maintain software supporting our cloud and on-prem service networking
- Participate in code reviews for your team and other teams
- Collaborate both within the team and with other Elastic engineering teams when working on cross-team efforts
- Debug production technical issues inside a sophisticated stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc.
- Mentor new team members, both junior and senior
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
What you will bring along
- Deep understanding of network technologies; cloud platform network behavior, load balancing, and host container networking are part of our day-to-day work
- Experience with a consistent pattern of delivering high-quality code, preferably in Go and/or JVM based languages—we work primarily in Go and Scala
- Ability to communicate well with individuals and groups to accomplish a common set of goals
Additional Information
- Passionate people building phenomenal products
- Deeply competitive pay and benefits, including equity grants
- Fully distributed company, both prior to 2019 and after
- An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
- Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices (when our offices reopen, and if you choose to go)
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Our cloud product allows users to create new clusters or expand existing ones easily This product would be built on technologies such as OpenStack, AWS, Docker, and others to enable the Operations Teams to easily create and handle multiple Elastic Clusters. Does this sound like you?
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We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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