Build Elasticsearch infrastructure with Java, APIs, and CI/CD expertise at Elastic, supporting shared platform functionality for cloud and on-premise delivery.

This senior individual contributor role focuses on foundational infrastructure enabling engineers to develop, extend, and support Elasticsearch. You will design scalable features, improve developer productivity, and work across teams on technical projects. The team owns services, settings, scripting, observability, serverless orchestration, and delivery workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Evolve core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch

Automate development workflows and integrate agentic applications

Design horizontally scalable features and APIs

Resolve performance and concurrency issues

Own operational investigations through resolution

Requirements

Hands-on CI/CD experience with Buildkite, Argo CD, or GitOps

Solid core Java, algorithms, and data structures knowledge

Experience crafting APIs and evaluating tradeoffs

Knowledge of Gradle or other Java build tools

Experience leading projects across engineering teams

Apply Java, API design, automation, and operational problem-solving skills to improve Elasticsearch platform productivity at Elastic.

📌 Senior Elasticsearch Platform Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Winnipeg