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ElasticSenior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Analytics) – Platform Infra
Elastic seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Analytics) to join its Platform Infrastructure team. Elastic is a Search AI company offering cloud-based solutions for…
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Elastic seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Analytics) to join its Platform Infrastructure team. Elastic is a Search AI company offering cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability, utilizing structured and unstructured data to help organizations deploy AI. More than half of the Fortune 500 use the Elastic Search AI Platform. This position sits on the observability side of Platform Observability and Analytics. The team manages infrastructure that…
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Elastic seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Analytics) to join its Platform Infrastructure team. Elastic is a Search AI company offering cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability, utilizing structured and unstructured data to help organizations deploy AI. More than half of the Fortune 500 use the Elastic Search AI Platform.
This position sits on the observability side of Platform Observability and Analytics. The team manages infrastructure that tracks platform behavior, operating over 200 hosted deployments across every supported cloud region to handle logs, metrics, and traces for all of Elastic Cloud, alongside monitoring SLAs and SLOs for ESS and Serverless.
The role involves directing end-to-end projects, maintaining shared infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation, reviewing code and designs, and mentoring colleagues. The position suits an infrastructure or platform engineer with solid Linux and programming backgrounds who enjoys troubleshooting production environments, enhancing documentation, and working across multiple time zones in real-time or asynchronous contexts.
Compensation includes a base salary starting between $138,300 and $185,900 CAD, stock program participation, a company-matched retirement plan, health coverage, flexible schedules, vacation days, and volunteer matching programs.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery of moderate-to-high complexity projects on the team roadmap with limited supervision
- Run and harden shared Elastic Cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Python, and Go
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve production incidents and draft incident postmortems
- Review code and designs written by team members and check critical infrastructure changes
- Mentor junior engineers and suggest operational improvements
- Update team documentation, runbooks, and operational processes
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering
- Proficiency with Terraform and multi-workspace configurations
- Software engineering fundamentals in Python
- Direct knowledge of Linux systems and running containerized workloads in production environments
- Background in handling a 24/7 on-call rotation and resolving high-pressure incidents
- Clear communication skills in written and verbal formats
Qualifications
- Familiarity with Go programming
- Production experience with the Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana
- Experience using GitOps deployment tooling like ArgoCD and Helm or policy-as-code frameworks on Kubernetes
- Knowledge of secrets management via Vault or access control tools like Teleport
- Background with fleet-scale configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible
- Exposure to compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP or GovCloud
Core Skills
Benefits
- Base salary range of $138,300 to $185,900 CAD
- Eligibility to participate in the company stock program
- Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan matching up to 6 percent of eligible earnings
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous yearly vacation days
- Donation matching up to $2000 or local currency equivalent
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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