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 / Ventajas

- 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 (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Vitoria-Gasteiz