Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity

Elastic
Poland
Full timePLN 369,400 - 584,300 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical communication","Code review","Mentoring","Collaboration","Systems thinking"]

Join the Platform Engineering Productivity team to make Elastic’s software development and release lifecycle more efficient and reliable. Build and improve frameworks, reusable components, and operational guidelines spanning CI infrastructure, build/release artifact generation, ephemeral developer environments, and release quality gates. Collaborate on requirements and testing strategy, review code to raise engineering standards, and mentor teams while maintaining technical documentation for systems and processes.

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Principal Software Engineer - Builder Experience - Platform Engineering Productivity

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Job Summary

Join the Platform Engineering Productivity team to make Elastic’s software development and release lifecycle more efficient and reliable. Build and improve frameworks, reusable components, and operational guidelines spanning CI infrastructure, build/release artifact generation, ephemeral developer environments, and release quality gates. Collaborate on requirements and testing strategy, review code to raise engineering standards, and mentor teams while maintaining technical documentation for systems and processes.
Location: Poland
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and improve frameworks, reusable components, and operational guidelines that help teams own the full software development lifecycle.
  • •Improve CI infrastructure reliability and efficiency, and build/manage systems that produce releasable artifacts.
  • •Enable ephemeral developer environments and define/enforce release quality gates.
  • •Develop tooling and infrastructure for product deployment and release, including review code to uphold engineering standards and catch defects early.
  • •Collaborate with engineering and product, drive technical communication, maintain documentation, and mentor engineers around code quality and best practices.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: PLN 369,400 - 584,300 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including build, package, test, release, and quality strategy.
  • •Deep experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Java, or Scala.
  • •Experience with CI/CD systems, Git, and modern development and release practices.
  • •Experience with cloud infrastructure and developer platforms, including Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, configuration management, and major cloud providers.
  • •Hands-on AI fluency, including integrating LLM APIs into production workflows and applying prompt engineering.
Experience:Developer tools
Skills:Technical communicationCode reviewMentoringCollaborationSystems thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoBashJavaScalaGitCI/CDTerraformKubernetesDockerLLM APIsPrompt engineeringConfiguration management

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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