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$139,890–$195,000
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$146k
versus about
$167k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
Software Engineer II - Control Plane (Hosted Foundations / Applications) joins the Control Plane - Hosted team to support Elastic’s cloud offerings. This role involves technical design, coding, debugging sophisticated failure scenarios, and prioritizing bug fixes and features. You will guide cross-team technical designs, create high-level architectures, and lead best practices for development to ensure a reliable, scalable foundation. Key responsibilities include collaborating with distributed teams to diagnose problems and advising on new features. The ideal candidate possesses five years of experience, pragmatic technical leadership, and proficiency in back-end languages like Scala, Java, or Go. You must demonstrate technical depth in SaaS-relevant technologies such as orchestration, networking, and containers. This role specifically addresses the technical challenges of maintaining a robust, automated, and high-quality cloud infrastructure.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Create and guide cross-team technical designs and high-level architectures for cloud offerings.
Write high-quality code and craft technical solutions for the Control Plane.
Debug sophisticated failure scenarios and prioritize critical bug fixes and new features.
Analyze current system strengths and limitations to improve reliability and scalability.
Lead technical plans and development best practices for the team and other product areas.
Diagnose complex problems for support engineers and advise on new feature designs.
Ensure a reliable foundation and engaging user experience for cloud customers.
What we're looking for
5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a track record of delivering high-quality code.
Previous experience providing pragmatic technical leadership for a group of engineers.
Knowledge of back-end languages such as Scala, Java, or Go.
Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS, such as orchestration, networking, or containers.
Passion for automation and quality.
Eligibility to work in DoD Impact Level 5.
Must not be a national of or located in Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia (including annexed Ukrainian territories) without an export license.
Java
Distributed Systems
Python
SQL
Kafka
Spark SQL
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Data Pipelines
Data Lakes
Networking
ML
Optimization Algorithms
Live Streaming
Cloud Services
Go
Java
C++
Python
Bash
REST
gRPC
Protobuf
Kubernetes
Distributed Systems
CI/CD
Git
TCP/IP
BGP
etcd
Raft
ZooKeeper
Redis
Cassandra
SONiC
OpenConfig
YANG