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Elastic Platform - Site Reliability Engineer II Networking 
United States, Maryland 
986384824

09.07.2025

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

  • 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.

  • You have operated a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform
  • You have built or operated a Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it.
  • You have written non-trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages.
  • You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker.)
  • You have 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.
  • You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.
  • You have diagnosed or designed, implemented and created solutions with the Elastic Stack.
  • You are experienced in thriving in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment.
  • You strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring.

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

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$110,900—$175,500 USD

$133,200—$210,700 USD