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Senior Developer Advocate
Elasticsearch INC · 🇺🇸 New York, United States
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 20 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 20 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 8 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. 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 For all of us at Elastic, community matters. Our users and contributors have helped to ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) are more than just code — they are open source projects that people love to use, and love to talk about! As our Senior Developer Advocate you will champion our Elastic community. What You Will Be Doing Are you keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Do you feel at home connecting with community members across the globe: in person, on blogs, in forums, via social channels, and at events? Is speaking publicly at local meetups your jam? Are you passionate about the Elastic Stack? If so this might just be your dream job. Your activities as a Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic would include: • Speaking publicly at in-person and virtual conferences, meetups and other events. • Answering questions from developers on Discuss (our forum), Slack and other forums. • Building and sharing content, including social media posts, in-depth blog posts, example code, demos, tutorials and videos on elastic.co or our YouTube channel. • Contributing code on GitHub both to Elastic and external repositories. • Providing feedback from the developer community to our engineering teams to improve Elastic products. For this role, you will be our Senior Developer Advocate based in NYC, New York . You will keep up-to-date on the latest in search and AI, understand and advocate the Elastic Stack use cases, and be embedded in the developer community. What You Bring • Deep technical background and experience in an engineering role, such as software engineering. • Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing. • Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic’s products better, and fix problems where possible. • Comfortable working with a highly distributed team. • A devoted individual with experience working as a contributor in self-organizing teams. • Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English. Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for o