Senior Software Engineer, IAM, Control Plane, Platform

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$133,100–$210,600 / yr
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5 days ago
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About Elastic

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.

Elastic currently has 52 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $133,100–$210,600 across 52 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, IAM, Control Plane, Platform

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The Senior Software Engineer - IAM - Control Plane - Platform joins the Platform Control Plane team to evolve and operate control plane services for Self-Managed, Hosted, and Serverless offerings. This role involves developing and maintaining IAM codebases that power Elastic Cloud, designing software for cloud and on-prem services, and debugging complex issues involving distributed systems, virtualization, containers, and microservices. You will participate in coding, technical design, and an oncall rotation to address production incidents while prioritizing security and reliability. The role requires proficiency in JVM-based programming languages, with preferred experience in Scala, Golang, and Kubernetes. You will work on the orchestration layer of the Elastic Cloud, solving technical problems related to building and expanding clusters across multiple cloud service provider platforms.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.

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Skills

Kubernetes Go Scala Java Docker Elasticsearch AWS Azure GCP IAM Microservices Distributed Systems Virtualization SaaS JVM

What you'll do

  • Contribute to the development and evolution of IAM codebases for Elastic Cloud offerings.
  • Design, build, and maintain software supporting cloud and on-premise services.
  • Debug production technical issues involving distributed systems, virtualization, containers, and microservices.
  • Participate in an oncall rotation to solve incidents and address operational events in production.
  • Proactively improve existing services for security, stability, and reliability.
  • Analyze system strengths and limitations to refactor services for improved quality and operations.
  • Collaborate with Support engineers to resolve specific customer problems.

What we're looking for

  • Experience with JVM-based programming languages.
  • 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer in the IAM space OR 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer.
  • Eligibility to work in DoD Impact Level 5 or above cloud service environments.
  • Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.
  • Experience with Scala and Golang (preferred).
  • Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS (preferred).
  • Hands-on Kubernetes (k8s) experience (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience developing software on the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) (preferred).

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