Senior Software Engineer
Elastic
senior
Location
Spain
Work Type
Onsite
Seniority
senior
Posted
February 27, 2026
Total Compensation
€130,000
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€56,000
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Job Description
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time building internal platforms or developer infrastructure
- Proven experience designing large-scale data or analytics platforms
- Deep familiarity with modern SDLC tooling ecosystems (Git providers, CI/CD, issue tracking, observability, developer portals, etc.)
- Experience building metrics frameworks or operational analytics platforms
- Ability to influence senior technical and business leadership
- Strong product and systems thinking applied to internal developer tooling
- Experience building developer productivity or developer experience measurement systems
- Background in data engineering, ML/AI applied to engineering analytics, or large-scale observability platforms
- Experience working in organizations with 1,000+ engineers
- Experience building Backstage or similar developer portal ecosystems
- Experience building self-service engineering automation platforms
- Experience with the Elastic stack
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced senior engineer to design and build an internal engineering intelligence and developer productivity platform
- This platform will unify data across the software development lifecycle, generate actionable insights for engineering leadership, and create tooling that measurably improves developer experience, velocity, and effectiveness
- You will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of systems that transform raw engineering data into decision-making tools, operational dashboards, automated recommendations, and self-service developer workflows
- This is a high-impact, highly visible role that blends distributed systems, data platform engineering, developer tooling, and organizational influence
- Aggregates data from developer tools (source control, CI/CD, ticketing systems, observability platforms, AI coding tools, internal developer portals, etc.)
- Provides analytics on engineering productivity, workflow bottlenecks, quality signals, and resource allocation
- Measures developer experience using both quantitative signals and qualitative feedback
- Enables executive and team-level dashboards to track engineering performance and operational health
- Produces automated insights, risk detection, and data-driven recommendations
- Tracks adoption and effectiveness of emerging development technologies and automation
- Supports self-service workflows, engineering scorecards, and service ownership metadata
- Establishes measurement frameworks that align engineering output with business outcomes
Benefits
- Toast 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: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
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