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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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