Role Overview
The Senior Elastic Engineer leads the design, optimization, and strategic evolution of Elastic environments that support advanced security and observability use cases. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, with responsibility for scalability, resilience, platform standards, and complex solution design across enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and continuous improvement of enterprise Elastic environments
- Define and enforce best practices for scalability, resilience, lifecycle management, and operational excellence
- Support and optimize platform strategy for high availability, retention, performance, and cost efficiency
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex platform, pipeline, and data issues
- Design and govern ingestion pipelines, data models, and normalization standards aligned to ECS
- Build and optimize advanced Logstash and ingest pipelines for high-volume and diverse data sources
- Lead large-scale Elastic Agent and Fleet deployments with strong operational standards for endpoint and observability use cases
- Drive integration of diverse security and observability telemetry sources with high data quality
- Design and optimize AWS-backed Elastic infrastructure, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, and related cloud services
- Design production grade CI/CD pipelines.
- Leverage AWS services for snapshot strategy, retention, archival, and broader platform operations
- Monitor and optimize cost drivers across compute, storage, ingestion, and retention
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code
- Design advanced Kibana dashboards, detection workflows, observability views, and executive reporting
- Partner with detection engineering, infrastructure, and leadership teams to define requirements and roadmap priorities
- Identify opportunities to improve detection coverage, platform reliability, and observability maturity
- Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and contribute to platform roadmap planning
Requirements- Elastic Certified Engineer
- Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Elastic environments
- Strong experience with Elastic Security and Elastic Observability
- Expert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch architecture, including indexing, sharding, replication, search, and query performance
- Expertise in Elasticsearch template optimization and relevance fine-tuning.
- Proven experience operating large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters in production
- Deep expertise in capacity planning, cluster optimization, scaling, and platform hardening
- Advanced proficiency in Elasticsearch Query DSL and search optimization
- Strong programming and automation skills in Python, Java, Ruby, or similar languages
- Proven cybersecurity background with experience in threat detection, attack techniques, telemetry, and defensive operations
- Deep knowledge of Elastic security controls, including RBAC, encryption, detection rules, machine learning, and AI Assistant capabilities
- Extensive experience with data parsing, enrichment, and transformation using GROK, DISSECT, Logstash, and Elasticsearch ingest pipelines
- Experience with advanced detections, Watchers, dashboards, and observability views
- Strong experience supporting Elastic deployments in AWS-backed environments
- Working knowledge of AWS services, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, monitoring, and cost management
- Strong Linux administration skills in distributed data platform environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and communicate effectively across engineering and business stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading platform modernization or migration initiatives
- Experience designing multi-cluster or multi-region Elastic architectures
- Experience building reusable engineering standards, patterns, and operational playbooks
- Experience mentoring engineers in enterprise platform teams
BenefitsWhat We Offer- Competitive compensation package
- Competitive benefits package
- Company events, recognitions, and celebrations
- Career development and growth opportunities
