Principal Software Engineer (Networking, Platform)

Role Overview

Join Elastic as a Principal Software Engineer (Networking, Platform) in the Platform Engineering department, Traffic team. You’ll craft, build, and improve Elastic’s multi-cloud platform for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless, with a focus on reliability, security, and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement technical solutions for the multi-cloud platform at scale
• Code and innovate on platform features, bug fixes, and enhancements
• Improve resilience and prioritize security to reduce customer impact during major incidents
• Lead technical initiatives to automate network engineering for reliability of the global infrastructure
• Collaborate in an inclusive, distributed environment focused on operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Contribute to incident prevention and learning from operational experience (“progress not perfection”)
• Provide authority/mentorship, coaching, and cross-team leadership

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering with demonstrated delivery of cloud networking solutions
• Experience collaborating with engineers as an authority in identifying and delivering solutions
• Public cloud experience
• Go experience
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services

Nice to Have / Additional Skills

• Infrastructure-as-Code experience for SaaS in a public cloud, ideally using Crossplane or Terraform
• Experience building Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure across multiple cloud providers
• Containerized services experience (e.g., Docker)
• Linux system administration at scale
• Experience diagnosing/designing solutions using the Elastic Stack
• Proven record leading cross-team engineering initiatives
• Experience in globally distributed, self-organizing teams; remote/distributed collaboration

Leadership & Collaboration

• Coach and mentor team members and help teams uplift others
• Strengthen partner and team relationships through inclusive communication methods