Principal Software Engineer I - Serverless - Platform Control Plane
Core
Designing and operating the orchestration layer for Elastic Cloud Serverless, a fully managed, stateless platform that scales automatically across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Role type
Principal Software Engineer (Serverless Control Plane)
Builds
Distributed services for creating, configuring, scaling, and managing the lifecycle of Serverless projects on Kubernetes.
Domain
Cloud-native infrastructure, Serverless architecture, Multi-cloud orchestration
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Technical direction for complex distributed systems, Kubernetes architecture, Go programming, Cloud provider expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure), High-availability SaaS operations, Incident investigation, AI-assisted development
Preferred skills
FedRAMP/compliance experience, Elastic Stack knowledge, Kubernetes operators, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Go, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Elastic Stack
Responsibilities
Set technical direction for major initiatives from proposal to GA, Lead multi-quarter cross-team projects, Design and evolve distributed orchestration systems, Lead complex incident reviews and participate in on-call rotation, Mentor engineers and set technical standards, Advise product management on trade-offs and roadmap, Champion security, stability, and cost improvements
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic scope
