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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Elasticsearch
- **Location:** Spain (Remote available)
- **Salary:** €76,000.0 - €101,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Software Engineering, System Availability, Azure AKS, Graphite, Docker, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-platform-reliability-resilience-elastic-10187248

## About the Role

* Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships. Examples of working in distributed teams or working remotely is desirable., * You have operated a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform
 * You have built or operated a Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it.
 * You have written non-trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages.
 * You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker.)
 * You have proven experience in leading and improving alerting and major incident management standard processes metrics systems (e.g. Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx) to diagnose issues and quantify impacts to present to others at varying level of the organization.
 * You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.
 * You have diagnosed or designed, implemented and created solutions with the Elastic Stack.
 * You are experienced in thriving in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment.
 * You strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring.

## Description

* Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating system engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure. .
 * Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, tooling and automations.
 * Using an inclusive approach at championing an environment focused on collaboration, operational excellence, and uplifting others.
 * Responding to and preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritised problem management. Our on call rotation uses follow-the-sun model where everyone participates in it in (mostly) their working hours., * A background in software engineering to collaborate with engineers to expertly identify, implement and deliver solutions. An experience in public cloud and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous., You don't need to have all of these items, but these represent the types of work you will do as a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic.


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