Principal Software Engineer (CI/CD - Platform Engineering Productivity) in London

The Platform Engineering Productivity team operates the CI, CD, and Release infrastructure for the companyWe ensure developers can efficiently and safely deploy changes across our various environments and at scaleIn an age of AI, the landscape is evolving rapidly from scaling needs to, more than ever, securing our supply chainThere are interesting challenges to tackleWe're looking for a proactive systems thinker who delivers on business-driven projects while identifying and driving the work that keeps our infrastructure ahead before scaling and security challenges become problemsIf you're energized by work that makes every engineering team at Elastic ship faster and more securely, we'd love to hear from youDefine the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, from problem identification through org-wide adoptionIdentify 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 itDesign and enforce release gates covering supply chain integrity, artifact provenance, and release readiness, built to scale across teams without becoming a tax on engineering velocityDirect 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 distributedDrive clear technical communication and alignment across teams, and produce high-quality documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisionsServe as Incident Commander on high-severity supply chain or release incidents, and use each incident as a forcing function for structural improvementsRaise the engineering bar across the org through code review, mentorship, design review, and by setting standards others adopt voluntarilyRemain 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 outputBenefitsToast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you're passionate about.Amplify your impact - we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).Deep expertise in CI/CD and what it takes to harden a release pipeline against supply chain attacksStrong 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 layerA 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 workThe judgment to push back on a prescribed plan when it's the wrong call, and the credibility to get alignment on a better approachYou use AI to accelerate your own work and your team's and you understand AI's impact on supply chain security and scaleHands-on with CI infrastructure (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent), GitOps/ArgoCD, and KubernetesExperience directing the work of other engineers toward outcomes not just collaborating, but breaking down complex problems into executable work and holding the outcome
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