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.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Search Developer Productivity team, you’ll enhance the quality, efficiency, performance, and security of developer workflows across the Search organization. You’ll work closely with teams within Search and across Elastic to enable high engineering productivity through automation, robust CI/CD pipelines, and tooling for testing, benchmarking, and security. You’ll take technical ownership of reliable, monitored infrastructure and ensure the Search team can efficiently deliver new features and products.
What You Will Be Doing- You will build and improve benchmarking infrastructure to help engineers easily create, run, and monitor performance tests.
- You will strengthen observability and alerting across Search products to improve visibility and reduce incident response times.
- Share expertise to promote reliability, performance, and security awareness across teams.
- You will collaborate with and mentor teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences.
- You’ll be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback.
- You will collaborate with the team lead and the team on projects, breaking them down into technical deliverables. You’ll act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team.
- “Low ego” and the desire to grow as part of a team.
- Experience in using scripting programming languages such as Python, Bash, JavaScript, etc.
- Experience working with Terraform
- Experience in one or more CSPs
- Experience working with Docker
- Experience building automations and setting up monitoring/alerting
- Experience building the infrastructure for benchmarking is a plus
- Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus
- Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent.
- Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into artifacts: issues, investigations, documentation,and onboarding material.
- An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change.
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
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
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.
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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.
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