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Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
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As a Principal Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering Productivity team, you will focus on improving the software development and release process to ensure high-quality product delivery. You will build and improve frameworks, reusable components, and operational guidelines that enable teams to own the full software development lifecycle. Your daily work involves enhancing CI infrastructure reliability, managing systems for releasable artifacts, enabling ephemeral developer environments, and defining release quality gates. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala, along with experience in Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and major cloud providers. You will also leverage AI fluency by integrating LLM APIs into production workflows. This role solves the challenge of scaling engineering efficiency through automation and tooling within a complex software delivery environment.
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