Principal Software Engineer I - Engineering Productivity - Platform

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 Engineering Productivity team provides the foundation for Elastic teams to develop, build, test, and release their software at scale. We’re continuously evolving our platform and workflows, increasingly pushing boundaries toward Continuous Delivery, Continuous Quality models, while ensuring our Software Supply Chain is secured.

We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive impactful projects in Engineering Productivity. Success in this role goes beyond your technical expertise and involves influencing outcomes through collaboration, effective stakeholder management, and strong communication.

What You Will Be Doing

Solve technical problems of the largest scope, complexity, and ambiguity.

Drive large, impactful projects that involve multiple stakeholders and impact many teams.

Represent Engineering Productivity to the rest of the company, gathering feedback and advocating for our projects and vision at different levels.

Up leveling the quality of the engineering in the org by setting standards exemplified in code review, incident response, and tech debt elimination for their team and peer teams.

Participate in the On-Call rotation.

What You Bring

A high level of autonomy - the distributed nature of the company offers freedom to work when and how you see fit, but also requires team members to work independently, and reach out for help when stuck.

Strong communicator who can tailor their message to engineering peers and leadership alike.

Supportive mindset to help grow and mentor other team members.

Effective at stakeholder management and influencing without authority.

Knowledge of Platform Engineering and CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Backstage, Argo CD, GitOps, etc).

Familiarity and experience with Kubernetes.

Broad software development background and solid knowledge in either Go or Python.

Familiar with Linux and shell scripting.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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 p