Software Engineer II - Platform Infrastructure (Orchestration)

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. About the role The Elastic Cloud Platform powers Elastic's products in the cloud. Our teams take the undifferentiated heavy lifting off Elastic's engineering organization — building and operating the services that let other engineers develop, ship, and run software at scale. What does a Software Engineer II do here? Ship code that engineering teams across Elastic rely on Learn from experienced engineers while owning real work Build expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and the cloud-native ecosystem Find your specialty and grow with the team The role is fully distributed — collaboration happens every day over GitHub, Slack, and Zoom! What you will be doing Build features and components for production services Take ownership of well-scoped pieces of larger projects, from requirements through production Propose technical solutions and bring them through to working code Pair with senior engineers on harder problems and ask clarifying questions early Participate in code reviews and design discussions Helps operate the services we own and take part in the on-call rotation Investigate incidents beyond the runbook and leave them better for the next person Automate repetitive work through code Communicate status and blockers early and often What you will bring along Hands-on experience writing services in Go, or strong proficiency in another systems language with