Principal Software Engineer (CI/CD - Platform Engineering Productivity)

Elastic as a Principal Software Engineer in the Platform Engineering Productivity team. You will be responsible for defining the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, identifying bottlenecks and security risks, designing release gates, directing engineers through complex projects, and driving clear technical communication across teams.

About Elastic

• Hands-on with CI infrastructure (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent), GitOps/ArgoCD, and Kubernetes
• You use AI to accelerate your own work and your team's and you understand AI's impact on supply chain security and scale

Responsibilities

• You will also serve as Incident Commander on high-severity incidents and raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• This role offers flexible location and schedule, fully paid health coverage, generous vacation days, parental leave, and charitable giving matching.
• Definir la hoja de ruta y la visión técnica para CI/CD, desde la identificación del problema hasta la adopción en toda la organización.
• Identificar dónde CI/CD es un cuello de botella, una fuente de fricción o un riesgo de seguridad antes de que se convierta en un incidente, y dirigir la remediación.
• Diseñar y hacer cumplir las puertas de lanzamiento que cubren la integridad de la cadena de suministro, la procedencia del artefacto y la preparación para el lanzamiento.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD and what it takes to harden a release pipeline against supply chain attacks
• Experience directing the work of other engineers toward outcomes not just collaborating, but breaking down complex problems into executable work and holding the outcome
• Strong debugging instincts across the full pipeline stack: you trace failures from test runner to artifact store to cluster deployment without needing a specialist for each layer

Requirements

• The judgment to push back on a prescribed plan when it's the wrong call, and the credibility to get alignment on a better approach
• A track record of multi-quarter, cross-org ownership: you've identified the right problem, designed the solution, and gotten organizations that didn't report to you to change how they work

Pay

EUR 80,400 - 127,200