Principal Software Engineer (Networking) - Platform

## Responsibilities - Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure. - Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, codebases, tooling and automations. - Collaborating in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focusing on operational perfection which uplifts others. - Preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritised problem management. Our on call rotation is spread well, and we address complex customer concerns too. ## Requirements - 10+ years in Software Engineering with product success in delivering Cloud network solutions. You collaborate with engineers as an authority in identifying, implementing and delivering solutions. Experience in public cloud, Go and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous. - Success and lessons of experiences from striving for 'progress not perfection' in the name of Platform reliability. We want to hear about your customer first approach in solving operational problems for both today and the future. - Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships. Examples of working in distributed teams or working remotely is desirable. ## Nice to Have - You have designed and built a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform - You have built Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it. - You have written product features or functions in Golang or other programming languages. - You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker.) - You have proven results in leading and improving cross-team engineering initiatives. - You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale. - You have diagnosed or designed, implemented and created solutions with the Elastic Stack. - You are experienced in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment. - You strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring. ## Benefits - Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. - The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. - These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified.