What is The Role As a Senior Software Engineer at the Search Developer Productivity team, you will be responsible for the quality, efficiency, performance, and security across Search. You will work closely with other teams inside Search and across Elastic to ensure engineers' high-level productivity. You and the team will develop automations and benchmarking tools and will be responsible for the security, reliability, and monitoring of our solutions. You’ll make sure that the Search team productively develops and delivers new features and products. What You Will Be Doing You will be building automations, and tools around security and reliability, setting up monitoring and alerting infrastructure for developers from the Search team, enabling their productivity. You will collaborate with and mentor teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences. You’ll be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback. You will collaborate with the team on projects, breaking them down into technical deliverables. You’ll act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team. What You Bring "Low ego" and the desire to grow as part of a team. Experience building software using modern programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Go, Kotlin, etc. Openness to learn new languages and technologies Experience building automations and the infrastructure for monitoring/alerting Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent. Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into artifacts: issues, investigations, documentation, and onboarding material. An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change.