Job brief: Sr. Software Engineer - IT Software Engineering

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Elastic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens jobs.elastic.co, the address Elastic's board gives for this job.
• The same title for the same place was listed 1 other time on this board in the last 90 days: several openings, or a re-posted job.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $133,100 to $210,600 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: United States
• Posted: 2026-11-10

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Sr".

Must have

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skil…
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
• If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role.

Conditions

• Own what you build for its whole life: review, testing, releases, production operations including on-call, new features, maintenance and, eventually, retirement.
• when to use keyword, vector (semantic) or hybrid search

Main duties

• Build internal applications that replace paid, specialized tools.
• Design and evolve the shared, versioned building blocks that every application is built from: data connectors, authorization, data storage and migrations, se…
• Build with AI coding agents such as Claude Code inside a disciplined, spec-driven process.
• Own what you build for its whole life: review, testing, releases, production operations including on-call, new features, maintenance and, eventually, retirem…
• Help set the team's standards for architecture, contracts, testing and observability, and feed what you learn back into Elastic's products.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $188k a year (1,004 listings, 65 employers). This listing is 9% lower.
• Across Elastic's 156 open listings, 33% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Elastic hires

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