Senior Platform Productivity Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch
Core
Build foundational infrastructure and shared functionality for Elasticsearch to ensure it is easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure.
Role type
Senior Platform Productivity Engineer (Core/Infra)
Builds
Elasticsearch core infrastructure, shared services, settings, scripting capabilities, observability tools, and CI/CD workflows.
Domain
Search engine infrastructure and developer productivity tools
Required skills
Core Java, algorithms and data structures, CI/CD systems, API design, large-scale codebase management, project leadership
Preferred skills
Low-level Java (concurrency, classloaders), JDK internals, OpenTelemetry, Go, Kubernetes, platform team experience
Technologies
Java, Gradle, Maven, Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps, Painless, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Design and implement horizontally-scalable features and APIs; identify and develop automation opportunities for developers; solve difficult performance and concurrency issues; own operational investigations end-to-end; collaborate on open-source projects.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with cross-team leadership
