Platform - Engineering Productivity - Software Engineer II

Platform - Engineering Productivity - Software Engineer II

Elastic Cloud 21 July 2025

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

The Engineering Productivity team provides the foundation for Elastic teams to develop, build, test, and release their software at scale. We empower them to be efficient and independent by providing realistic and reliable developer environments. We’re continuously evolving our workflow and increasingly pushing boundaries toward Continuous Delivery and Continuous Quality models. Not only this, but we are also working on delivering secure solutions to our customers by overcoming vulnerabilities introduced into our cloud and CI/CD environments via third‑party dependencies that could lead to or exploit breaches of our software supply chain. In addition, we provide tools, both customized and standard, to improve the development and delivery experiences. Many challenges are ahead of us. We are looking for someone to help us overcome them and maintain smooth delivery of our products, regardless of scale.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building integrations, automations, and platforms that help engineers ship code quickly and safely.
• Reduce sources of toil in our software development lifecycle with software and infrastructure engineering practices.
• Participate in an internal host/on‑call rotation to support our internal engineering customers.
• Contribute to our technical plans and direction, as well as across other product teams in Elastic.
• Be part of a distributed team of engineers from across the globe.
• Collaborate with other teams within Elastic when working on cross‑team efforts.
• Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What You Bring

• A record of software engineering excellence, delivering high‑quality code to Production.
• Strong experience in a language of choice, such as Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
• Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem‑solving skills.
• The ability to learn quickly, handle ambiguity and solve big problems.
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle: building, packaging, testing, and releasing, and experience driving a product release/quality strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Cloud experience, for example, Terraform, cloud CSPs, Kubernetes, config management tools, containerization.
• A passion for working across team boundaries and interacting with internal customers.
• You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship.
• You love working with a diverse, worldwide team in a distributed work environment.
• Humble and ambitious attitude.
• An ability to cultivate a culture of mutual respect, teamwork, and consensus‑based decision‑making.
• Bonus: Experience with FedRAMP Moderate and/or FedRAMP High.
• Bonus: Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company‑matched 401k with dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well‑being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $92,500–$146,300 USD. The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $111,000–$175,600 USD.

Additional Information – We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary. Health coverage for you and your family in many locations. Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles. Generous number of vacation days each year. 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. Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. 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. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email View email address on click.appcast.io. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster). Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic. Please see here for our Privacy Statement.

How to Apply

Interested in this position? Please submit your resume and cover letter through the application portal.