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Senior Platform Productivity Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch

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

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