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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Hosted Infra)

Elastic· Platform - Cross Team
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Hybrid (Australia)Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Cloud Infrastructure SRE focusing on automating and scaling multi-cloud hosted infrastructure across multiple providers and global regions to power Elastic Cloud, with emphasis on automation, IaC, observability, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Engineering software to automate large-scale systems — building internal tools and services, not just running scripts.
  • Optimizing the reliability and lifecycle of hosts across multiple cloud providers.
  • Strengthening our observability posture — crafting alerting and monitoring systems that drive incident prevention over incident response.
  • Scaling global infrastructure and evolving the infrastructure management processes to meet growing demand.
  • Contributing to code reviews, sharing your work, planning what we need to do next, and both mentoring and being mentored by teammates.
  • Being part of a balanced SRE on-call rotation: responding to incidents, improving runbooks, participating in postmortems, and championing reliability improvements.

Qualifications

  • Production experience operating large-scale cloud compute (hundreds of hosts or more) via automated workflows.
  • Deep experience with Linux systems — you are at home in the terminal debugging at the OS level.
  • Experience building software with Golang. You are also comfortable reviewing others' code and offering constructive feedback.
  • Proficiency working with containerized workloads in production.
  • A customer-first, systems-thinking approach to operational problems — you care about root causes, not just symptoms.
  • Comfortable working across time zones in both real-time and asynchronous contexts.
  • You contribute clear and maintainable documentation such as software designs, runbooks, architecture diagrams/decisions, postmortems, etc...
  • You communicate project status regularly and clearly, flag blockers early, and follow through on action items.
  • A sensible approach to AI integration — identifying where AI tools genuinely reduce operational burden and embedding them into workflows without adding complexity.

Skills

Required:Cloud compute operationsLinux systemsGo (Golang)Containerized workloads

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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