Software Engineer II, Builder Experience, Platform Engineering Productivity

Elastic

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$110,900–$175,500 / yr
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2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $168k
This role $143k
$99k most similar roles pay here $221k

This role pays less than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $149,000–$187,850 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $143k versus about $168k for comparable roles.

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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 256 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $133,100–$203,000 across 89 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer II, Builder Experience, Platform Engineering Productivity

Software Engineer II - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity joins the Platform Engineering Productivity team to enhance the developer experience and ensure high-quality product releases. This role focuses on improving the end-to-end software development lifecycle by building tools, frameworks, and processes for internal teams. Key responsibilities include managing CI infrastructure, creating ephemeral developer environments, establishing release gates, and developing systems for building releasable artifacts. The ideal candidate possesses proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala, alongside experience with Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker. They must demonstrate a deep understanding of software development lifecycles, including packaging and testing. Additionally, the role requires using AI-assisted tools to improve code quality and troubleshooting while navigating complex release engineering challenges within a distributed team environment to solve internal productivity hurdles across various product stages.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197500 from 2229 postings across 139 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Maintain and optimize reliable, scalable, and efficient CI infrastructure.
  • Manage systems and processes for building and packaging releasable artifacts.
  • Create and maintain ephemeral environments for developer use.
  • Define and enforce release gates based on specific quality criteria.
  • Build tools and infrastructure to support product deployment and release cycles.
  • Improve the end-to-end developer workflow across build, test, package, and release stages.
  • Integrate AI-assisted tools to accelerate development and improve code quality.
  • Ensure all software contributions comply with security policies and the Secure Software Development Framework.

What we're looking for

  • Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.
  • Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle including building, packaging, testing, and releasing software.
  • Proficiency in cloud and infrastructure technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD and version control systems, specifically GIT.
  • Experience executing or contributing to release engineering and quality strategies.
  • Experience using AI-assisted tools to accelerate development, troubleshoot systems, and improve code quality.
  • Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
  • Eligibility to work in Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments.

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