What's the salary range?

Elastic lists $133,100–$210,600 for this role.

How much experience is required?

3–5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - IAM - Control Plane - Platform role.

Where is the role based?

Elastic is hiring for this position in United States.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Docker, Elasticsearch, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Scala.

What seniority level is this role?

Elastic targets senior candidates for this position.

Senior Software Engineer - IAM - Control Plane - Platform at Elastic

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on developing and maintaining the control plane services that underpin Elastic's cloud offerings, engaging in coding, debugging, and system analysis. Key skills include proficiency in JVM-based languages and experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and distributed systems. This position is ideal for seasoned backend engineers with a strong background in identity and access management, who can work autonomously and collaborate effectively across teams. The team operates in a distributed environment, emphasizing creativity and resourcefulness in tackling complex challenges.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Elastic's careers page October 23, 2026.
Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 6% of 115 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $173,000 across 41 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
Kubernetes appears in 32.6% of 512 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Scala appears in 4.3% of 512 comparable senior backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Software Engineer - IAM - Control Plane - Platform role remote?: It's hybrid — Elastic expects some on-site time in United States.
What's the salary range?: Elastic lists $133,100–$210,600 for this role.
How much experience is required?: 3–5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - IAM - Control Plane - Platform role.
Where is the role based?: Elastic is hiring for this position in United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Docker, Elasticsearch, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Scala.
What seniority level is this role?: Elastic targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - IAM - Control Plane - Platform role at Elastic.

From the original posting

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

The Elastic Platform Control Plane team is looking to add to our growing team! We are looking for creative and passionate people who can help us evolve and operate our control plane services (Self-Managed, Hosted, and Serverless), and accelerate our adoption of Kubernetes. Our distributed services constitute the orchestration layer of the Elastic Cloud and allow users to build new Elastic Clusters or expand existing ones. Our services run on multiple cloud service provider platforms and are built on Docker, Kubernetes, Go/Scala/Java, and custom orchestration architectures. We are a versatile group of engineers based all around the world, covering a multitude of countries and time zones. We tackle hard problems with creativity and resourcefulness. We also have lots of fun along the way! This is your chance to join a team with outstanding chemistry and help us make meaningful contributions to Elastic’s future. Day to day you will participate in coding, technical design, crafting solutions, debugging complicated failure scenarios, and prioritizing security, bug fixes, and features. You will analyze the current systems strengths and limitations, and think of ways in which to refactor our services to improve our operations and quality of our service. You will also participate in an oncall rotation to address operational events in a timely manner.

What You Will Be Doing

Contribute to the development and evolution of the IAM codebases that power our Elastic Cloud offerings.
Operate our systems by participating in our oncall rotation, solving incidents in Production.
Collaborate with Support engineers in solving customer problems.
Proactively improve our existing services for security, stability, and reliability.
Design, build, and maintain software supporting our cloud offerings and on-prem services.
Debug production technical issues involving distributed systems, virtualization, containers, and microservices.

What You Bring

A record of software engineer excellence, delivering high-quality code to Production.
Solid experience with JVM-based programming languages.
3+ years working as a backend engineer in the IAM space OR 5+ years working as a backend engineer
Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar.
Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.
You possess the ability to collaborate across teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
You are eligible to work in DoD Impact Level 5 or above cloud service environments

Bonus Points

Scala and Golang experience
Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS.
Hands-on Kubernetes (k8s) experience.
Hands-on experience developing software on the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch.

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.

$133,100—$210,600 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$159,900—$252,900 USD

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