Overview

As Principal Software Engineer, you define the architectural direction for Elastic Cloud's application networking, including Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls. You'll lead cross-organizational initiatives, elevate reliability, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and senior staff to shape the platform. This role offers influence over high-scale networking systems and the chance to drive architectural clarity and cost efficiency.

You'll work in a distributed environment delivering secure, observable cloud services.

Compensaciones / Incentivos competitive pay health coverage for you and your family flexible locations and schedules generous vacation days donation matching up to $2000

volunteer hours (up to 40 hours/year)

Responsabilidades Set the technical direction for major application networking initiatives from proposal to GA

Lead development of Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls at scale for Elastic Cloud

Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and operability issues

Lead multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects and guide delivery

Improve operational quality and lead end-to-end incident investigations and on-call rotation

Mentor engineers and act as a trusted technical advisor across the org





Collaborate with product management and senior stakeholders on trade-offs and roadmap direction

Champion security, stability, and cost-efficiency improvements

Untangle complexity and bring architectural clarity across the platform

Requisitos principales Experience designing high-performance, scalable distributed systems at staff/principal level

Deep expertise in application networking and cloud-native architecture

Strong knowledge of Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls

Proven ability to own projects end-to-end and lead multiple engineers

Experience operating high-availability SaaS platforms and improving reliability

Track record of using AI to accelerate development and debugging

Strong collaboration across functions and autonomous, transparent communication

Ability to influence direction across teams without formal authority collaboration across functions leadership and mentorship clear, asynchronous communication

Kubernetes networking (Cilium, external-dns, Envoy Gateway, Crossplane)

AWS, Azure, or GCP networking ecosystems

Design, operation, and evolution of Ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Application Networking) - Platform Infrastructure (Gerona)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Gerona