Principal Software Engineer (CI/CD, Platform Engineering Productivity)

Join our Platform Engineering Productivity team as a Principal Software Engineer. In this role, you will define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, identify bottlenecks and security risks, design and enforce release gates, and direct engineers through complex projects. You will also serve as Incident Commander on high-severity incidents and raise the engineering bar across the organization. This position offers flexible location and schedule, fully paid health coverage, generous vacation days, parental leave, and charitable giving matching.

• Definir la hoja de ruta y la visión técnica para CI/CD, desde la identificación del problema hasta la adopción en toda la organización.
• Identificar dónde CI/CD es un cuello de botella, una fuente de fricción o un riesgo de seguridad antes de que se convierta en un incidente, y dirigir la remediación.
• Diseñar y hacer cumplir las puertas de lanzamiento que cubren la integridad de la cadena de suministro, la procedencia del artefacto y la preparación para el lanzamiento.

• We're looking for a proactive systems thinker who delivers on business-driven projects while identifying and driving the work that keeps our infrastructure ahead before scaling and security challenges become problems
• If you're energized by work that makes every engineering team at Elastic ship faster and more securely, we'd love to hear from you
• A track record of multi-quarter, cross-org ownership: you've identified the right problem, designed the solution, and gotten organizations that didn't report to you to change how they work
• Deep expertise in CI/CD and what it takes to harden a release pipeline against supply chain attacks
• The judgment to push back on a prescribed plan when it's the wrong call, and the credibility to get alignment on a better approach
• Strong debugging instincts across the full pipeline stack: you trace failures from test runner to artifact store to cluster deployment without needing a specialist for each layer
• Experience directing the work of other engineers toward outcomes not just collaborating, but breaking down complex problems into executable work and holding the outcome
• Hands-on with CI infrastructure (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent), GitOps/ArgoCD, and Kubernetes
• You use AI to accelerate your own work and your team's and you understand AI's impact on supply chain security and scale