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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 enhancing 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 engineering teams to manage the full software development lifecycle effectively. Your daily responsibilities include improving CI infrastructure reliability, managing systems for releasable artifacts, enabling ephemeral developer environments, and defining quality gates. You will also provide code reviews, mentor engineers, and create technical documentation. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala, along with experience in Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure. Additionally, you must possess AI fluency to integrate LLM APIs into production workflows while solving complex problems related to developer productivity and scalable system automation.
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Median $197500 from 2229 postings across 139 companies.