Elastic · 2 hours ago

Platform - Distinguished Software Engineer I

Colorado, United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$250K/yr - $395K/yr

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Responsibilities

Responsible for technical vision and architecture for new initiatives spanning Elasticsearch and ES|QL.

Leading the delivery of the cross company technical features in partnership with the solution teams.

Delivering operational SLOs, improving processes, maintainability, testability, re-use, and reliability.

Collaborating actively with other senior technical leaders to align roadmaps, making appropriate technology choices and trade offs.

Reviewing and approving implementation designs for core platform features.

Supporting the contributor community, building engagement, providing best practices and ensuring alignment with architecture.

Mentoring a dedicated and talented team of Senior and Principal Engineers.

Being a credible and trusted leader, advocate and influencer for Elastic's DE community.

Qualification

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ElasticsearchESQLScalable data storesDistributed systemsLanguage designCompilersTechnical leadershipElastic StackKibanaStatically typed languageOpen source contributionSecuritySearch domainsObservability

Required

Deep acumen building scalable data stores (database, data lake) and how to build access layers on top of that.

Deep acumen building and operating large scale distributed systems and experience dealing with the scale, reliability, security and performance that arise.

Experience in a technical leadership role for a large and distributed team e.g. large projects, with more than 50 engineers.

Experience as a hands-on innovation leader, having delivered successful architecture development and/or evolutions.

A pragmatic approach, experience balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Experience in language design or compilers for set-based or pipe based declarative programming languages.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical and problem solving skills.