Platform - Site Reliability Engineer II; Networking

Platform - Site Reliability Engineer II (Networking)

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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 for multiple cloud provider platforms. Built on Kubernetes, Go/Scala, and custom orchestration architectures, you’ll 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, and we want your experience to contribute to an exceptional customer experience.

• Take an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure.
• Grow our global Platform infrastructure to meet increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, tooling and automations.
• Collaborate in an inclusive environment, focusing on operational excellence and uplifting others.
• Respond to and prevent repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritized problem management. Our on‑call rotation uses a follow‑the‑sun model.

• Success and lessons from striving for progress not perfection in platform reliability, with a customer‑first approach to solving operational problems with an SRE perspective.
• A 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 or remote teams 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 to support it.
• Written non‑trivial programs in Golang or other languages.
• Experienced with containerized services (Docker).
• Trained in leading and improving alerting and major incident management processes, metrics, and systems (Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx).
• System administration skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.
• Designed and implemented 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, not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible calendar and locations for many roles.
• Generous vacation days.
• Matching up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations.
• Up to 40 hours each year toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an inclusive culture celebrating diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by law.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all. To request an accommodation, email candid

Base salary only. Typical starting salary range: $130,900—$165,500 USD; adjusted by location.