# Principal Software Engineer I - Serverless - Platform Control Plane at Elastic

- Company: Elastic
- What the company does: Power insights and outcomes with The Elasticsearch Platform. See into your data and find answers that matter with enterprise solutions designed to help you accelerate time to insight. Try Elastic toda... Backed by NEA and Amplify.
- Company website: https://www.elastic.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs?gh_jid=8130119&gh_jid=8130119
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elastic-principal-software-engineer-i-serverless-platform-control-plane/

## About the role

The Control Plane Serverless team builds and operates the orchestration layer behind Elastic Cloud Serverless. Elastic Cloud Serverless is our fully managed offering, built on a stateless architecture that separates compute from storage and scales automatically with customer demand. We build the distributed services that create, configure, scale, and manage the lifecycle of Serverless projects on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, and we own Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK).

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years building software, including setting technical direction for complex distributed systems running production at scale (Staff or Principal level, or equivalent scope)
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture, including designing systems that orchestrate other systems
- Proficiency with Go, and hands-on work with at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
- You have operated high-availability SaaS platforms, responded to incidents, and improved reliability over time
- You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes
- You possess the ability to collaborate across teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities

Tags: Platform - Control Plane