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're looking for a dedicated JavaScript Engineer to join our Observability team, a full-stack team of JavaScript engineers that evolve and maintain the Elastic Observability product. Elasticsearch is a powerful and efficient datastore for our customers' logs, metrics, and application traces. Our team builds and maintains features and products that allow our users to quickly gain insights from these data, including APM, Infrastructure Observability, and Logs solutions as well as high-performance alerting, SLOs, and incident management.
Our team is often asked to innovate new and creative solutions to difficult customer problems, which means we're always learning, too. How do we automatically collect data from common data sources? Can we store it more efficiently? Can we improve the way we extract insights from observability data? Can we make incident management and root cause analysis easier for the people who use our products? All of these aspects are important parts of building a world-class observability product that our users are happy to spend time in every day.
We are currently looking to hire for this position on the East Coast of the US. Relocation is not offered.
- Author code alongside other dedicated engineers supporting the Observability team's mission.
- Partner with data analysts, product managers and designers to build, test, and release features that improve users' observability experience.
- Write and maintain high-quality TypeScript code.
- Participate in code reviews for your team and other teams.
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship.
- You have 3+ years working in a JavaScript-focused role.
- You're passionate about JavaScript or web development in general.
- TypeScript experience is a plus.
- You demonstrate strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- You have the ability to work autonomously in a globally distributed team.
- You have experience with and/or curiosity to learn Observability concepts including incident management, SLO strategy, entity definition, and more!
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
The typical starting salary range for this role is: $110,900-$175,500 USD The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $133,200-$210,700 USD Additional Information - We Take Care of Our PeopleAs 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
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