Where does Elastic hire?

Elastic recruits across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Each posting names the country or location for that role, so check its location requirements before applying.

What benefits does Elastic offer?

Elastic offers health coverage, paid time off, parental and caregiving benefits, retirement plans with a company match, and equity opportunities. Its parental-leave policy provides at least 16 weeks, and remote workspace costs can be reimbursed when you join and again every five years. Specific benefits vary by region.

Does Elastic share salary ranges?

Yes. Elastic publishes starting salary ranges in US job postings, with different ranges for some locations. Pay within a range depends on factors including relevant experience, skills, and geographic location. The company says it bases pay on the work rather than previous salary.

What is Elastic's interview process like?

The process generally runs: application, a 30-minute recruiter screen, department interviews (45–90 minutes), an optional panel presentation, a technical assessment for some roles (60–90 minutes), then a decision and onboarding. Most interviews are conducted virtually, though some may be held on-site.

Can I use AI when applying to Elastic?

Elastic allows AI to help organize your thoughts, polish your resume, and prepare for interviews. Your experience and skills must remain accurate, and you should be able to explain your approach. Interview conversations must take place without AI assistance.

Consulting Architect - Observability

Elastic

Onsite

Job Description

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

We are seeking an exceptional and highly experienced Senior Consulting Architect to join our Global Capability Center. This senior role is critical to the success of our global customers, focusing on the strategic design and hands-on implementation of the Elastic Stack with focus on Search AI.

You will serve as a trusted technical architect and consultant, working with complex enterprise environments to translate business challenges into robust, scalable, and value-driven Elastic solutions. The role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, senior-level consulting acumen, and the ability to work effectively across time zones, with both remote support and required on-site client engagement.

What You Will Be Doing

As a member of our professional services team you will deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products. Work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops. You will apply your soft skills to advocate for your customers, build relationships and exhibit strong communications skills. Comfortability working remotely or on-site in a highly distributed team. Your activities will include end-to-end delivery of ground-breaking Elastic projects to our customers, as well as development of proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions. Other topics will include Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale.

Daily tasks include driving and handling the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting and exceeding the customer objectives. Your goal is to make your customers love Elastic and achieve amazing value from the platform!

Work across teams with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from the field back to the product. Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns. Be a mentor to your team members, while also learning from them to accelerate your skills

What You Bring

Essential Qualifications

Elastic Certification: Required – Active Elastic Observability Engineer certification is mandatory.
Minimum of 7 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience
Consulting History: A strong history of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
Domain Expertise: Proven experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Enterprise Observability.
Fleet and agent installation policies, and scalability considerations.
Knowledge in deploying enterprise observability (Metrics and Logs) solutions at scale (Application performance monitoring (APM), User experience monitoring (UEM), Infrastructure optimization, Network visibility and monitoring).
Experience leading observability projects at both the architectural and program level.
Experience working with monitoring tools that integrate into service management.
Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems.
Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Technical Depth: Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
Programming/Scripting: Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment (e.g., Python, Javascript, Go).
Communication: Exceptional customer advocacy, relationship-building, and soft skills including whiteboarding and driving architectural conversations. Proven ability to lead and articulate technical solutions to stakeholders.
Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation.
Travel: Ability and willingness to travel to client sites periodically as required for project success (up to 20%)

Bonus Points

Any cloud service provider's - Gen AI certification.
Additional Elastic Certifications
Comfortable with Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform
Experience working closely with a pre-sales organization in scoping customer needs and delivering against a Statement of Work (SOW).
Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker on enterprise infrastructure software.
Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation.

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Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)

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Benefits & Perks

Health & Wellness

Health Insurance

Elastic offers health coverage for employees and their families in many locations.

Dental Insurance

Dental insurance is available to US employees.

Vision Insurance

Vision insurance is available to US employees.

Health Savings Account (HSA)

US employees have access to a Health Savings Account.

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

US employees have access to a Flexible Spending Account.

Life Insurance

Employer-paid life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment coverage is provided to US employees.

Disability Insurance

Short-term and long-term disability coverage is available to US employees.

Mental Health Benefits

Elastic provides emotional support services alongside health coverage as part of its Health and Well-being benefits.

Employee Assistance Program

Elastic offers an employee assistance program alongside its mental well-being resources.

Financial

401(k) / Retirement Plan

Elastic offers a 401(k) retirement plan for US employees, with regional retirement plans available in other locations.

401(k) Match

Elastic provides dollar-for-dollar 401(k) matching up to 6% of eligible earnings for US employees.

Equity / RSUs

Elastic offers equity compensation through restricted stock unit grants.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Eligible employees can buy Elastic shares at a discount through its employee stock purchase plan.

Time Off

PTO / Vacation

Elastic encourages employees to take paid time off, including vacation and sick days; specific benefits vary by region.

Sick Days

Elastic offers paid sick time as part of its time-off benefits.

Paid Holidays

Elastic observes paid company holidays as part of its time-off package.

Bereavement Leave

Paid bereavement leave is available following the death of a family member or loved one.

Remote & Equipment

Home Office Stipend

Elastic reimburses employees to set up their remote workspace when they join and again after every five years of tenure.

Company Equipment

Elastic offers work equipment for employees.

Family & Care

Parental Leave

New parents receive at least 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

Fertility Benefits

Family-formation support includes fertility treatment and surrogacy assistance.

Caregiver Policy

Caregiving time off and support resources help employees care for family members.

Professional Growth

Learning & Development Programs

Elastic offers learning and development programs to support skill building and career growth.

Culture & Perks

Volunteer Time Off

Employees receive up to 40 paid hours each year to volunteer with organizations they care about.

Charity Matching

Elastic matches employee charitable donations up to US$2,000 per year, or the local currency equivalent.

Employee Resource Groups

Elastician Resource Groups connect employees across identities and interests as part of Elastic's global community.

Team Events & Social Budget