Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role:As part of the Platform Engineering department, the SRE team is designing, building, scaling and maturing the multi-cloud platform for hosting internal and external services such as the Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. We develop and extend new software and tools that support the rest of the infrastructure, so that we can rapidly deploy products from all corners of Elastic. Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating system 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, tooling and automations.
A background in software engineering to collaborate with engineers to expertly identify, implement and deliver solutions. An experience in public cloud and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous.
Examples of working in distributed teams or working remotely is desirable.
Bonus Points:You don't need to have all of these items, but these represent the types of work you will do as a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic.
You have operated a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or TerraformYou have built or operated a Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it.
You have written non-trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages.
You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker.)Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx) to diagnose issues and quantify impacts to present to others at varying level of the organization.
You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.
Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salaryHealth coverage for you and your family in many locationsAbility to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many rolesGenerous number of vacation days each yearIncrease your impact
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