Senior Software Engineer - Control Plane (Hosted Foundations / Applications)

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 As a Software Engineer on our Control Plane - Hosted team, you will be responsible for technical design and work in key functional areas of Elastic’s Cloud offerings. You will participate in coding, crafting solutions, debugging sophisticated failure scenarios, and prioritizing bug fixes and features. You’ll analyze the current system, its strength and limitations. What You Will Be Doing • Guide cross-team technical designs and help create a team-wide high level architecture • Lead best practices for development, ensuring a reliable, scalable foundation and an engaging user experience for our customers • Contribute and lead technical plans and direction within our team and across other product teams in Elastic • Be part of a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe • Collaborate with other teams within Elastic. Examples include helping Support engineers in diagnosing problems or advising the Elasticsearch engineers with designing new features What You Bring • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality code • Previous experience providing pragmatic technical leadership for a group of engineers • Knowledge of back-end languages such as Scala, Java or Go • Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS (orchestration, networking, containers, etc.) • Passion for automation and quality 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. 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 our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being. The typical starting salary range for this role is: $128,300 — $203,000 CAD Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulation