Software Engineer II - 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 Platform Engineering Productivity team provides the foundation for Elastic teams to develop, build, test, and release their software at scale. We empower them to be efficient and independent by providing realistic and reliable developer environments. We’re continuously evolving our workflow and increasingly pushing boundaries toward Continuous Delivery and Continuous Quality models. Not only this, but we are also working on delivering secure solutions to our customers by overcoming vulnerabilities introduced into our cloud and CI/CD environments via third-party dependencies that could lead to an exploit or breach of our software supply chain.

Our productivity infrastructure is powered by technologies such as Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Buildkite, common Cloud service providers (GCP/AWS), signing technology (GPG, Sigstore, and notarization), and languages such as Java, Go, and Python.

To grow and operate at scale, teams need control over the end-to-end software development cycle for their services. The Engineering Productivity organization acts as an enabling function, providing a framework, reusable components, and guidelines that teams can adopt and operate. As a member of Engineering Productivity, you may work on a broad range of projects that impact the entire software development lifecycle; anything from ensuring CI infrastructure is up and running, owning the processes to build releasable artifacts, creating ephemeral developer environments, gating releases on a range of key quality criteria, or building the tooling and infrastructure to deploy and release the products to customers.

Many challenges are ahead of us, and we’re looking for someone to help us tackle them and keep our releases non-events, regardless of our scale. Does this sound like you?

What You Will Be Doing

• A knack for problem-solving, picking things up quickly, handling ambiguity & tackling big problems


• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience executing a product release/quality strategy


• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python/Go/Bash/Java/Scala


• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills


• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, k8s, config management tools, Docker


• A passion for working across the org and interacting with internal customers


• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship


• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment


• Humble and ambitious attitude

What You Bring

• A knack for problem-solving, picking things up quickly, handling ambiguity & tackling big problems


• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience executing a product release/quality strategy


• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python/Go/Bash/Java/Scala


• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills


• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, k8s, config management tools, Docker


• A passion for working across the org and interacting with internal customers


• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship


• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment


• Humble and ambitious attitude

Bonus Points

• Experience with Kubernetes and one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)


• Experience with Buildkite, ArgoCD, and other CI/CD technologies


• Independent and driven, you have invested in your interpersonal skills and know how to “get in the zone” to focus on solving problems