Principal Software Engineer (Application Networking) - Platform Infrastructure

Elastic
Spain
Full timeEUR 76,000 - 98,400Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentoring","Operational investigations","Incident response","Collaboration","Asynchronous communication"]

Drive the technical direction and architecture for Elastic Cloud application networking, shaping where application networking goes next. Own designs for ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls—from proposal to general availability—while improving performance, reliability, and operability. Lead multi-quarter cross-organizational initiatives, manage complex incident investigations, and mentor engineers as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert.

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Principal Software Engineer (Application Networking) - Platform Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Drive the technical direction and architecture for Elastic Cloud application networking, shaping where application networking goes next. Own designs for ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls—from proposal to general availability—while improving performance, reliability, and operability. Lead multi-quarter cross-organizational initiatives, manage complex incident investigations, and mentor engineers as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert.
Location: Spain
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction for major application networking initiatives, owning designs from proposal through general availability.
  • •Lead development of ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls at large scale for Elastic Cloud.
  • •Continuously identify and address performance, reliability, and operability issues.
  • •Lead multi-quarter, cross-organizational projects and guide them through delivery.
  • •Mentor engineers and serve as a subject matter expert; participate in on-call and lead complex incident investigations and reviews.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 76,000 - 98,400
Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeavePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Designed high-performance, scalable distributed systems at production scale, with experience setting technical direction at Staff/Principal level (or equivalent scope).
  • •Deep expertise in application networking and cloud-native architecture, including how services communicate at scale and designing/evolving ingress, private connectivity, DNS, and security controls.
  • •Experience building large-scale distributed systems without relying on off-the-shelf services.
  • •Ability to own projects end-to-end, including technical design and working with others to develop components; experience guiding work involving multiple engineers.
  • •Operated high-availability SaaS platforms, responded to incidents, improved reliability over time, and care about testing, observability, and operability.
Experience:SaaSDistributed systemsCloud-nativeProduction networking
Skills:MentoringOperational investigationsIncident responseCollaborationAsynchronous communication
Tech Stack:KubernetesCiliumExternal-dnsEnvoy GatewayCrossplaneAWSAzureGCPIngressDNSElasticsearchKibana

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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