Senior Elastic Engineer

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