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      <Title>Principal Software Engineer (Networking) - Platform</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>As a Principal Software Engineer (Networking) - Platform, you will be part of the Platform Engineering department, responsible for crafting, building, and improving the multi-cloud platform at scale for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless. You will participate in coding, innovating technical designs, crafting solutions, improving resilience, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features.</p>
<p>Key responsibilities include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure.</li>
<li>Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, codebases, tooling, and automations.</li>
<li>Collaborating in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focusing on operational perfection which uplifts others.</li>
<li>Preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritized problem management.</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements include:</p>
<ul>
<li>10+ years in Software Engineering with product success in delivering Cloud network solutions.</li>
<li>Experience in public cloud, Go, and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous.</li>
<li>Success and lessons of experiences from striving for &#39;progress not perfection&#39; in the name of Platform reliability.</li>
<li>Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships.</li>
</ul>
<p>Bonus points include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Designing and building a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform.</li>
<li>Building Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it.</li>
<li>Writing product features or functions in Golang or other programming languages.</li>
<li>Working with containerized services (such as Docker).</li>
<li>Proven results in leading and improving cross-team engineering initiatives.</li>
<li>Experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.</li>
<li>Diagnosing or designing, implementing, and creating solutions with the Elastic Stack.</li>
<li>Experienced in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment.</li>
<li>Strengthening team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring.</li>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>remote</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange></Salaryrange>
      <Skills>Software Engineering, Cloud Network Solutions, Public Cloud, Go, Managed Kubernetes Services, Infrastructure-as-Code, Crossplane, Terraform, Golang, Containerized Services, Docker, System Administration, Linux, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Automation, Inclusive Communication, Coaching and Mentoring</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Elastic</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/elastic.co.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Elastic is a search AI company that enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Its search AI platform is used by over 50% of the Fortune 500.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://www.elastic.co/</Employerwebsite>
      <Compensationcurrency></Compensationcurrency>
      <Compensationmin></Compensationmin>
      <Compensationmax></Compensationmax>
      <Applyto>https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/7713597</Applyto>
      <Location>Spain</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-18</Postedate>
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