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 looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Developer Tools Team. In this role, you will bring your expertise in software development and ecosystems to our distributed team of engineers from various technical disciplines in order to build, maintain, and support libraries and integrations. An interest in working across a range of projects and programming languages, with a particular focus on Python and Node.js, is essential. Ideally, you will also have experience developing software in an open source environment. The Developer Tools Team is primarily responsible for creating libraries, SDKs, and other tools that simplify the integration of the Elastic product suite into user applications. Your role will involve developing and maintaining this software, engaging with developer communities, and contributing to both team-wide projects and cross-team collaborations. You will be working on fully open sourced code that is embedded within user applications, so will need to understand the implications of writing software in the open, versioning and managing product releases, and interacting with users directly in a public setting. Prior experience with the Elastic product suite is not essential, but is beneficial. What You Will Be Doing You'll be developing, maintaining, and supporting libraries and third-party integrations for the Elastic Stack, working in a mixture of languages including Python and Node.js. You'll work closely with the Product Team and other internal stakeholders to plan and deliver work, highlight challenges, and drive progress. You'll participate in the design and development of team-wide projects. You'll support users through GitHub issues, forums, and official support channels. You'll collaborate with maintainers of external projects (e.g. AI frameworks) to facilitate integration with the Elastic Stack. You'll represent Elastic within relevant communities and ecosystems. What You Bring Proven experience in building, releasing, supporting and maintaining software products for a broad user base. Minimum 4 years of recent software engineering experience in Python and/or Node.js. Knowledge of developing software within an open-source environment. Knowledge of industry best practices in software engineering. A strong focus on usability and developer experience. A genuine interest in technology and an active interest in exploring multiple programming languages. An understanding of core AI principles and LLMs. Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. A willingness and ability to work as part of a remote, globally distributed team. Clear thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to learn and work independently. Experience of vector databases (nice to have) A connection to tech communities through open source projects, blogs or talks (nice to have) Prior experience of Elastic products (nice to have) Knowledge of client-server networking, HTTP, and RESTful APIs (nice to have) Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being. The typical starting salary range for