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. 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. Join our Platform Engineering Productivity team as a Principal Software Engineer on AI Enablement and Developer Experience.

We're looking for a systems thinker who is curious by nature, stays ahead of the curve on AI and emerging tooling, and takes ownership not just of what the team builds but of how the entire engineering org works. Define the technical vision for AI-assisted development across the org from agent context standards and shared skills to LLM-backed tooling embedded in everyday engineering workflows. Design the guardrails that make AI adoption fast and safe — quality gates, security boundaries, and measurement that tells us whether it's actually working.

Enable episodic developer environments and build tooling for product deployment and release. Define and enforce release quality gates that scale across teams. Review code to uphold engineering standards, improve performance, and catch defects early.

Partner with engineering and product leadership to align on requirements, testing strategy, and delivery goals. Drive clear technical communication and alignment across teams, and produce high-quality documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisions. Mentor engineers and cultivate a culture where code quality, pragmatism, and AI fluency reinforce each other.

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hands-on fluency with AI-assisted development — integrating LLM APIs into production systems and applying a prompt-engineering mindset to real domain problems. The judgment to know when AI is the right answer and when it isn't, and the credibility to make that call across the organization. Comfort moving fluidly across projects, codebases, and evolving team structures — and helping others do the same.

It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; Health coverage for you and your family in many locations Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Take ownership of protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data and systems by following applicable privacy and security policies, standards, and procedures. Ensure that all individual contributions follow Elastic's Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). Proactively participate in mandatory role-based training to ensure personal technical execution consistently aligns with the highest standards of data protection, data privacy, and system resilience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia).

📌 Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity (Madrid)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Madrid