Senior Go/Kubernetes Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch

United KingdomFull-time$133k–$211k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-10

Core

Designing, building, and evolving distributed systems that orchestrate and manage Serverless Elasticsearch projects across cloud service providers, while owning Kubernetes orchestration and core infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC Go/Kubernetes engineer (infrastructure)

Builds

Serverless Elasticsearch clusters, Kubernetes orchestration, and core infrastructure APIs

Domain

Search engine infrastructure, cloud-native systems

Required skills

Go (concurrency primitives, idiomatic error handling, generics), Kubernetes (controllers, client-go), container orchestration, API design, algorithms and data structures, observability

Preferred skills

Java (JDK internals, concurrency), CI/CD (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps), Gradle, OpenTelemetry, platform team experience

Technologies

Go, Kubernetes, controller-runtime, client-go, Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps, OpenTelemetry, Gradle

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch; owning operational investigations end-to-end for performance or stability issues; collaborating in open source projects; improving operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Elastic

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