- Company: Elastic
- Location: Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD 128,300 – 203,000
About the role
Elastic is seeking a Senior Platform Productivity Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will focus on ensuring that shared platform functionalities are easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure. As a strong individual contributor, you will also lead cross-team projects and drive technical concepts across various collaborators. This role is based in Canada and offers a base salary range of CAD 128,300 to CAD 203,000.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to large projects that evolve the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
- Identify and develop opportunities for automation to make developers more productive.
- Design and implement new horizontally-scalable features and APIs.
- Solve difficult performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
- Improve the operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
- Collaborate openly with the ES team, users, and open-source projects.
- Support engineers with complex problems and own operational investigations end-to-end.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (e.g., Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
- Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
- Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
- Experience in core Java, including standard libraries, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Knowledge of Java build tools, with a strong preference for Gradle.
- Experience working with large codebases (millions of lines of code).
- Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions in a distributed team.
- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and debug complex systems.
Pay and benefits
- Base salary: CAD 128,300 – CAD 203,000.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation days each year.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Matching for financial donations and service up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent).
How to apply
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