Site Reliability Engineer II (Networking) - Platform

Reference #: 6950250

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data - securing and protecting private information more effectively - Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.What is The Role: As part of the Platform Engineering department, the Traffic team is crafting, building, and improving the multi-cloud platform at scale for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. We grow and mature our distributed network services and solutions for multiple cloud service provider platforms. We are built on Kubernetes, Go/Scala, and custom orchestration architectures. In your daily life with us, you will participate in coding, innovating technical designs, crafting solutions, improving resilience, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. For example, Debugging Azure Networking for Elastic Cloud Serverless is part of our efforts, and we want your experience to contribute to a truly exceptional customer experience!What You Will Be Doing:

Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure.

Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, tooling and automations. Collaborating in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focusing on operational excellence, and uplifting others. Responding to and preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritized problem management. Our on call rotation uses follow-the-sun model where everyone participates in it in (mostly) their working hours.What You Bring:

Experience operating a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform.

Operation of hardware of software routers with some experience in BGP configuration. Competency in system / network administration, with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale and Kubernetes Cilium networking. Success and lessons of experiences from striving for 'progress not perfection' in the name of Platform reliability. We want to hear about your customer first approach in solving operational problems with a SRE perspective. A background in software engineering to collaborate with engineers to expertly identify, implement and deliver solutions. An experience in public cloud and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous. Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships. Examples of working in distributed teams or working remotely is desirable.Bonus Points: You don't need to have all of these items, but these represent the types of work you will do as a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic.

A background in software engineering, having successfully collaborated with engineers to expertly identify, implement and deliver solutions.

Building or operating a Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it. Familiarity with containerized services (such as Docker.) Proven experience in leading and improving alerting and major incident management standard processes metrics systems (e.g. Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx) to diagnose issues and quantify impacts to present to others at varying level of the organization. Experience diagnosing or designing, implementing and creating solutions with the Elastic Stack. A history of thriving in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment. The ability to strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring.Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People: As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles Generous number of vacation days each year Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

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