Referral Board - Principal Software Engineer I - CI/CD - Platform Engineering Productivity

United Kingdom2w ago

In Office Principal EMEA Logistics Higher Education Principal Engineer Principal Reporting Kubernetes Documentation

Requirements

• Deep expertise in CI/CD and what it takes to harden a release pipeline against supply chain attacks. • Strong debugging instincts across the full pipeline stack: you trace failures from test runner to artifact store to cluster deployment without needing a specialist for each layer. • Hands-on with CI infrastructure (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent), GitOps/ArgoCD, and Kubernetes. • You use AI to accelerate your own work and your team's and you understand AI's impact on supply chain security and scale. • A track record of multi-quarter, cross-org ownership: you've identified the right problem, designed the solution, and gotten organizations that didn't report to you to change how they work. • The judgment to push back on a prescribed plan when it's the wrong call, and the credibility to get alignment on a better approach. • Experience directing the work of other engineers toward outcomes not just collaborating, but breaking down complex problems into executable work and holding the outcome. • Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People • 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

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, from problem identification through org-wide adoption. • Identify where CI/CD is a bottleneck, a source of friction, or a security risk before it becomes an incident, and drive the remediation rather than waiting to be assigned it. • Design and enforce release gates covering supply chain integrity, artifact provenance, and release readiness, built to scale across teams without becoming a tax on engineering velocity. • Direct engineers on your team through complex, multi-quarter projects: break down the architecture, assign the work, and own the outcome even when the execution is distributed. • Drive clear technical communication and alignment across teams, and produce high-quality documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisions. • Serve as Incident Commander on high-severity supply chain or release incidents, and use each incident as a forcing function for structural improvements. • Raise the engineering bar across the org through code review, mentorship, design review, and by setting standards others adopt voluntarily. • Remain hands-on at the right depth: you'll review code, prototype approaches, and debug production issues, but your primary leverage at this level is through the work of others, not your own output.