Engineering Efficiency - Senior Software Engineer, Tooling and Automation

Posted 7 Days Ago
Austin, TX
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Database
We help everyone find what they’re looking for.
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will lead projects related to testing frameworks and tooling within a multi-node environment. Responsibilities include writing unit tests, creating automated test frameworks, collaborating with teams to enhance productivity, and using the Elastic stack for quality automation and deployment improvement.
Summary Generated by Built In

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Endpoint Security Engineering Efficiency team. You will be working with former intelligence community and highly talented security industry engineers with extensive security expertise – including the author of Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. Engineers applying for this role are themselves developers who can use the Elastic stack and Elastic Cloud platform and are passionate about Quality Automation as well as creating usable tools, frameworks and solutions that improve developer productivity. We are strong believers in test automation, framework design and continuous delivery. Engineering Productivity engineers empower our development teams to author stable and reliable code faster.

Tech Stack

  • C/C++, Python, x86/x64 assembly
  • lldb, gdb, Windbg
  • Windows, macOS, and/or Linux kernel development and user space, system level APIs
  • git, Jenkins, TeamCity

What you will be doing

  • Manage a variety of projects related to testing frameworks, tooling, automation, continuous integration, deployment methodology and much more.
  • Write, code review, and run unit tests across platforms for a multi-node virtual and hardware environment.
  • Craft and develop reliable and performant test frameworks to automate endpoint testing.
  • Demonstrate and promote their usage across customer-zero: our engineers.
  • Automate to eliminate human toil in deployment and release testing.
  • Enable shift-left thinking through continuous integration and delivery.
  • Work with our infrastructure teams to improve internal Cloud environments.
  • Utilize the Elastic Stack for testing and introspection of Elastic Cloud.
  • Collaborate across functions and mentor other specialists on a quality mentality.

What you will bring along

  • You believe that a diverse company is a better company, and want to work with people all over the world.
  • Software engineering background with prior experience working as a developer, QA engineer, or software engineer passionate about developer productivity.
  • Strong experience with programming in a statically typed language like Java, Go or Scala.
  • Fixing low-level system APIs.
  • Experience in delivering continuous integration in a SaaS environment.
  • Operational experience with any of the major Cloud providers.
  • Passionate about software quality, developer productivity and release processes.
  • Exposure to configuration management and infrastructure-as-code principles.
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
  • Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
  • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
  • Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.

When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by Elasticsearch, Inc. (“Elastic”) which is located at 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 350 Mountain View, CA 94040 USA, and can be contacted by emailing [email protected]. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Elastic’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Elastic, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Elastic to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Elastic’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards under the standard contractual clauses. You can obtain a copy of the standard contractual clauses by contacting us at [email protected]. Elastic’s data protection officer is Felix Wittern, who can be contacted at [email protected]. We plan to retain your data until such time as roles you may be suitable for are filled, as such we cannot estimate the specific time period that will be. We would consider this period to have ended once a candidate accepts our job offer. However, once that period of time is over, we may hold your data for an additional period of time that will not exceed 18 months. We do this to ensure you can be considered for potential future opportunities which you might be better suited for. To see additional information, please review our Elastic Privacy Statement.

Top Skills

C/C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
The Company
Austin, TX
1,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

At Elastic, we see endless possibility in a world of endless data.

And we use the power of search to help people and organizations

turn that possibility into results.


Elastic is the leading platform for search-powered solutions. We help organizations, their employees, and their customers accelerate the results that matter. With solutions in Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security, we help enhance customer and employee search experiences, keep mission-critical applications running smoothly, and protect against cyber threats.


Delivered wherever data lives, in one cloud, across many clouds, or on-prem, Elastic enables organizations worldwide to use the power of Elastic, including Netflix, Uber, BBC, Microsoft, and thousands of others.

Why Work With Us

Check out our Source Code to learn more about what makes Elastic unique: https://www.elastic.co/about/our-source-code

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