Control Plane - Senior Software Engineer (Ingress)

The Control Plane Ingress team develops and maintains services to ensure that traffic from both external and internal services reaches appropriate destinations and enforces access control rules, both on multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Our globally distributed team has a broad scope and a balanced mix of levels, so there is plenty of room to be a mentor, to be mentored, to lead new features, and to advance both technically and professionally.

Our cloud product allows users to build new Elastic Clusters or expand existing ones easily. This product runs on multiple cloud providers and is built on technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, our custom orchestration, and others to enable the Operations Teams to easily build and balance multiple Elastic Clusters. Does this sound like you?

What You Will Be Doing:

• Build and maintain software supporting our cloud offerings and on-prem service networking
• Participate in code reviews for your team and other teams
• Collaborate both within the team and with other Elastic engineering teams when working on cross-team efforts
• Debug production technical issues inside a sophisticated stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What You Bring Along:

• Experience with a consistent pattern of delivering high-quality code, and professional experience with Go is required.
• Expertise with networking technologies like DNS, TCP/IP, etc
• Good understanding of network technologies; cloud platform network behavior, load balancing, and host container networking are part of our day-to-day work
• 3+ years of experience in the SaaS space
• Scala/JVM based languages experience and/or the ability to develop cloud-native applications for Kubernetes platform is a bonus.
• Ability to communicate well with individuals and groups to accomplish a common set of goals