Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
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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.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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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.
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What Elasticsearch INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Principal Consulting Architect” (Software Developers) in CA: $224k–$224k, median $224k.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- 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. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-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.
- What Elasticsearch INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 2 certified filings for “Principal Consulting Architect” (Software Developers) in CA: $224k–$224k, median $224k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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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?
As a Consulting Architect , you will play a pivotal role in helping customers realize the value of Elastic’s Solutions. While your primary focus will be on observability, you are a versatile expert capable of designing and scaling security architectures to strengthen detection, response, and resilience.
Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you will work with enterprises to improve application performance, infrastructure visibility, and end-user experience, while also improving their overall security posture. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Professional Services, Engineering, Product, and Sales to accelerate adoption of the Elastic platform, ensuring customers maximize the value of their data while achieving critical business outcomes.
What You Will Be Doing
• Solution Design & Delivery: Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, outcome-driven solutions built on the Elastic Stack.
• End-to-End Engagement: Lead the delivery of customer projects from discovery and roadmap design through implementation, enablement, and optimization.
• Architecting Observability: Partner with customers to deploy and operationalize solutions for distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, log aggregation, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Architecting Security: Guide customers in SIEM, endpoint, and cloud security use cases to improve threat detection and security analytics.
• Data Engineering: Optimize ingestion pipelines for performance, scalability, and resiliency using Elastic Agents, Beats, Logstash, and stream processing.
• Actionable Insights: Design and implement custom dashboards, visualizations, detection rules, and alerting in Kibana for both observability and security operations.
• Technical Leadership: Provide oversight and knowledge transfer to customers and teammates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Community & Culture: Capture and share best practices and solution patterns, contributing to internal enablement and a culture of continuous learning.
What You Bring
• Professional Expertise: 5+ years as a consultant, architect, or engineer with deep expertise in Search, observability & monitoring, and a strong capability in security domains.
• Deployment Experience: Proven track record of deploying Elastic Observability (APM, logs, metrics) and Elastic Security (SIEM, endpoint) or similar enterprise-scale solutions.
• Data Pipeline Mastery: Strong experience with time-series data ingestion, parsing, and normalization (ECS), including the use of Kafka or Redis.
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Hands-on expertise with distributed systems, Linux, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Security Literacy: Familiarity with incident response workflows and common frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or ISO 27001.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, or PowerShell).
• Communication: Strong presentation skills with the ability to engage directly with stakeholders and explain complex technical concepts.
• Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecur
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