Overview

As a Software Engineer II, you build and ship production services that empower Elastic's engineering teams to develop, ship, and run software at scale. You work closely with mentors, pair on challenging problems, and contribute to design discussions and code reviews. Your focus is on Go-based services, cloud-native patterns, and observability to ensure reliable, scalable systems. This role offers hands-on ownership in a distributed, async-first environment and opportunities to grow your expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.

Compensaciones / Ventajas

- competitive pay
- health coverage for you and your family
- flexible locations and schedules
- generous vacation days
- donation matching up to 2000
- volunteer time allowance

Responsabilidades

- Develop features and components for production services
- Own well-scoped parts of larger projects from requirements to production
- Propose technical solutions and implement them
- Pair with senior engineers on complex problems and seek clarification early
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions




- Support services in production, participate in on-call rotations
- Investigate incidents beyond runbooks and improve them for future incidents
- Automate repetitive tasks through code
- Communicate status and blockers clearly and promptly

Requisitos principales

- Hands-on Go experience or strong systems-language background with motivation to learn Go
- Understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals (Pods, Deployments, Services, Operators)
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Curiosity about distributed systems and scale-aware service communication
- Comfort working through ambiguity with mentorship
- Collaborative mindset and openness to feedback
- Clear written and verbal communication in a distributed async setting
- Commitment to code quality, testing, observability, and operability

- collaborative
- curiosity
- strong communication
- Go
- Kubernetes
- cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

📌 Software Engineer II - Platform Infrastructure (Orchestration) - españa
🏢 Elastic
📍 España