Platform - Site Reliability Engineer II; Networking

Platform - Site Reliability Engineer II (Networking)

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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 accelerate results that matter. By leveraging structured and unstructured data while securing private information, Elastic’s cloud‑based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

As part of the Platform Engineering department, the Traffic team is crafting, building, and improving the multi‑cloud platform at scale for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. We grow and mature our distributed network services and solutions for multiple cloud service provider platforms. Built on Kubernetes, Go/Scala, and custom orchestration architectures, you will participate in coding, innovating technical designs, crafting solutions, improving resilience, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features.

For example, debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless is part of our efforts.

• Leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure.
• Developing and maintaining software, tooling and automations to grow our global Platform infrastructure to meet increasing scaling demands.
• Collaborating in an inclusive environment with a focus on operational excellence and uplifting others.
• Responding to and preventing repeated customer impact from major incidents and prioritized problem management. Our on‑call rotation follows a follow‑the‑sun model and everyone participates during their working hours.

• Experience in striving for “progress not perfection” in the name of Platform reliability, including a customer‑first approach to operational problems from an SRE perspective.
• Background in software engineering to collaborate with engineers to identify, implement, and deliver solutions; experience in public cloud and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous.
• Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to strengthen partner and team relationships; experience working in distributed teams or remotely is desirable.

• Operated a SaaS product in a public cloud using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform.
• Built or operated a Kubernetes‑at‑scale infrastructure across multiple cloud providers with vital automation.
• Wrote non‑trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages.
• Worked with containerized services (e.g., Docker).
• Proven experience in leading and improving alerting and major incident management processes, using tools such as Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, or Influx.
• Experience in system administration with professional Linux skills on distributed systems at scale.
• Diagnosed or designed, implemented, and created solutions with the Elastic Stack.
• Thrived in a self‑organizing, globally distributed team environment.
• Coached and mentored teammates, uplifting others.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous vacation days each year.
• Match up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave.

Compensation
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Base salary only, no variable component. Typical starting salary range: $130,900—$165,500 USD (and same for select locations).

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,…