Jobs at Elastic

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Elastic Cloud application networking systems, including ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls. Drive large-scale distributed systems initiatives, improve performance, reliability, observability, operability, and cost efficiency, and lead incident investigations. Partner across engineering and product teams, mentor engineers, influence technical roadmaps, and guide multi-quarter projects from proposal through production.

Lead Elasticsearch vector search initiatives, designing and implementing search features, algorithms, and data structures while resolving complex bugs. Improve vector similarity search performance, relevance, and maintainability in modern Java. Collaborate with distributed engineering and open-source communities, guide cross-functional projects, review code, and provide technical leadership across codebases and teams.

Lead development of Elasticsearch vector similarity search capabilities, including designing and implementing new features, improving existing functionality, resolving bugs, and developing algorithms or data structures. Serve as a subject-matter expert, collaborate with a globally distributed engineering and open-source community, review code, guide cross-functional initiatives, and build scalable, idiomatic Java software for high-performance search.

Lead development of Elasticsearch search relevance and vector search capabilities. Design and implement new search features, algorithms, and data structures; fix complex bugs; improve performance and maintainability; and contribute to technical direction. Collaborate asynchronously with globally distributed engineers and open-source contributors, write modern Java, review code, and guide initiatives from design through delivery.

Lead development of Elasticsearch search and vector-search capabilities, designing algorithms and data structures, implementing Java features, fixing complex bugs, improving relevance and performance, and contributing to technical direction. Collaborate asynchronously with globally distributed engineers and open-source contributors, review code, triage issues, and drive initiatives from design through completion.

Manage and optimize compute capacity for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. Build capacity models, forecast resource needs, prevent shortages, optimize cloud resource usage, analyze capacity metrics, develop reporting tools, and operate autoscaling infrastructure across more than 60 regions. The role also involves incident investigation, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and collaboration with control plane and platform engineering teams across the three major cloud service providers.

Own and build elastic.co features end-to-end across the full stack: React front-end components, backend services, CI/CD pipelines, performance instrumentation, monitoring, and security triage. Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers, perform code reviews, resolve production issues, and participate in on-call rotations for a high-availability, scalable web platform.

Lead architectural and code-level performance engineering for Elasticsearch, from design through production. Develop performance models, profile distributed systems, identify bottlenecks, optimize stateful and serverless architectures, and build benchmarking and regression-detection automation. Drive AI-assisted optimization tooling, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers. Focus areas include Java and JVM performance, concurrency, distributed systems, logging, metrics, vector search, ES|QL, storage engines, and scalable search infrastructure.

Build and evolve the Elastic MCP server and tooling (primarily in Go), create a portable platform for agent skills, design third-party AI ecosystem integrations, enhance the Elastic CLI, and develop/maintain libraries and integrations (including Rust). Drive correctness via evals, collaborate with product and external partners, and prioritize developer experience and product thinking across fast-changing, ambiguous work.

Design and improve Elasticsearch distributed-systems components for consistent, concurrent indexing and cluster coordination. Scale shards, nodes, and petabyte datasets, diagnose performance and concurrency issues, support operations/support teams, and own end-to-end projects including technical design and cross-team development.

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch core storage and query engine for observability workloads. Lead architecture, resolve performance bottlenecks, improve storage/indexing/query execution, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, collaborate with global community, and write idiomatic modern Java.

Design, implement, and scale Elasticsearch distributed systems: improve concurrent indexing, maintain cluster coordination, optimize performance at petabyte scale, debug concurrency and performance issues, and lead cross-engineer projects.

Own vision, strategy, and roadmap for Identity Threat Detection & Response within Elastic Security. Define detections, investigations, and automated responses for human and non-human identities; collaborate with threat research, data scientists, and engineers; integrate identity signals with endpoint, cloud, and network data; engage customers and evangelize product capabilities.

Lead product development for logs and logs analytics within Elastic Observability. Drive end-to-end log collection, ingest, management, and features for SREs (GenAI integration, automated SLO/SLI, intelligent alerting, correlation of logs/metrics/traces). Collaborate with engineering, UX, sales, and marketing to prioritize roadmap, track engagement, and drive adoption and go-to-market activities.

Full‑stack engineer on the self‑service cloud growth team building onboarding and trial experiences. Design and implement scalable frontend and backend features, APIs, agentic interfaces, and data evolution strategies. Collaborate with PMs, designers, and solution teams to integrate cloud and Kibana flows and operationalize software in production.