JavaScript Developer Experience and Tooling - Kibana Operations
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
We are looking for a hands-on developer in the Application Experience Operations team, which is responsible for building and maintaining CI systems and developer tools that shorten the development feedback loop for Kibana, facilitate automated testing, and regularly capture and surface quality and performance metrics. The team also provides ongoing developer tooling support and documentation to ensure that other developers have the highest level of productivity. You’ll collaborate with teams across Elastic, supporting hundreds of developers who build on top of the Kibana platform and shaping a robust, cloud-native developer experience.
What You Will Be Doing
- Develop and maintain build, test, and deployment tools and environments
- Provide enhancements to our continuous integration pipeline
- Develop, collect, and analyze developer experience metrics
- Maintain and update critical dependencies
- Work collaboratively with other developer focused teams throughout Elastic
- Provide technical feedback to engineers through code reviews
- Provide ongoing support to developers to ensure a smooth day-to-day experience
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
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
What You Bring
- 2+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role managing Continuous Integration platforms
- Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Understanding of at least one modern JavaScript framework such as Angular or React
- Experience with the release process: Source code control, package installers, build scripts, Docker, etc.
- Familiar with various JavaScript build and bundling tools such as Webpack, Nx, or Moonrepo
- Able to work independently and deliver projects involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Your heart in the right place, a good sense of humor and a genuine interest in the people you work with
Bonus Points
- Experience with Buildkite
- Experience with the Elasticsearch platform
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience in distributed systems
- Experience with AI tools and workflows to enhance the developer experience
- Experience with open source projects
