Elasticsearch - Senior Build/Release Engineer

Job Description

Elastic is a search company with a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, we help thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay, Grab, Goldman Sachs, ING, Microsoft, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and many more use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We have a distributed team of Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting), and our diverse open source community spans over 100 countries. Learn more at elastic.co

Engineering Philosophy

Engineering a highly complex distributed system that is easy to operate via elegantly designed APIs is a non-trivial effort. It requires solid software development skills, and more importantly, a sharp mind and the ability to think like a user. We also care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you’re working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible in our organization. At Elastic, we effectively don’t have a hierarchy to speak of. We feel that anyone needs to be in the position to comment on absolutely anything, regardless of their role within the company.

Do you want to work on open source, highly distributed search and analytics software which impacts the lives of millions of people? We are looking for an outstanding Build/Release Engineer who loves solving complex technical problems. We’re not interested in your previous job title. Instead, we are looking for bright people with a deep technical knowledge and love of shipping software who want to focus on the infrastructure of Elasticsearch.

What you will be doing

• Managing the build and release process for Elasticsearch (ES)
• Working with the internal infra team on Elasticsearch CI
• Simplifying and automating developer workflows
• Keeping abreast of tool chain changes (e.g., improvements in Gradle, the JDK, etc.) and adapting the Elasticsearch build accordingly
• Collaborating in open source with the ES team and the Elastic Stack users

What you bring along

• At least 5 years of full-time professional engineering experience
• Deep knowledge of at least one build system (preferably Gradle) and one CI system (preferably Jenkins)
• Experience managing large builds
• Practical experience routinely shipping production software
• Follows JDK mailing lists

Bonus Points

• Experience deploying and operationalizing software in production
• Knowledge of packaging (like RPM / Debian) and experience with Docker
• Strong Shell skills
• Strong on Java/Groovy in general
• Tenacity towards problem solving

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Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving — we match up to 1% of your salary
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.