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Full Stack Engineer – Documentation

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 Documentation Engineering team at Elastic is responsible for building and maintaining the platform and tools that power user and developer documentation for all Elastic products. As a Full Stack Engineer on this team, you will play a key role in developing our next-generation documentation platform. You’ll work with a small team of engineers and collaborate closely with technical writers and other partners to create a rich, interactive, and outstanding documentation experience.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle exciting engineering challenges while working with innovative technologies in search, AI, and cloud-native solutions. You’ll also be part of a globally distributed team that values openness, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We are currently looking to hire this position in Hungary, Greece, or Spain. Relocation and sponsorship are note offered. 

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Design and implement a new documentation system and website that is performant, interactive, and maintainable.
  • Create tooling and automated processes that improve the content authoring experience at Elastic.
  • Maintain, update, and improve legacy build systems and dependencies while ensuring automated test coverage.
  • Work closely with our documentation product manager and technical writers to create and ship valuable features to our documentation build system.
  • Build with Elastic’s Search, AI, Observability, and Security products.
  • Provide Pull Request reviews and guidance to peers.
  • Proactively participate in team conversations and contribute to a positive team culture.
  • Collaborate with other parts of the company on cross team features and topics.

What You Will Bring:

  • Real passion for documentation and its role in the customer experience.
  • A positive demeanor and a curious mind.
  • Experience with .NET or another statically typed language.
  • Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and front-end frameworks.
  • Experience writing automated tests.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a distributed environment with colleagues across the globe.
  • Self-motivated, good attention to detail, and highly organized.
  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Bonus Points

  • Experience building documentation systems.
  • Experience developing scalable services and applications.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience using a cloud platform such as AWS.
  • Love open source development, and have contributed to some project somewhere (doesn't have to be ours).

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/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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 [email protected] 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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