Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, the distributed search and analytics engine that sits underneath a large share of the world's search boxe... See Elastic open jobs and get referred by a verified employee on RefOpen.
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, the distributed search and analytics engine that sits underneath a large share of the world's search boxes, log analysis systems and security monitoring platforms. Its software indexes very large volumes of text, structured records, metrics and vectors, and makes them searchable in near real time, which is why it appears in settings as different as e commerce product search, application performance monitoring, fraud detection and threat hunting.
The Elasticsearch project was created by Shay Banon and released as open source in 2010, and the company was founded in 2012 to build a business around it. Elastic listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018. It operates as a distributed company with a registered headquarters in Mountain View, California and employees working remotely across more than forty countries, including a significant engineering presence in India, Europe and North America. The company employs roughly 3,500 people.
Its commercial offering is organised into three solutions built on the same underlying platform. Elasticsearch covers search applications, including the vector search and retrieval capabilities now widely used to ground large language models in an organisation's own data. Observability covers logs, metrics, traces and application performance monitoring. Security covers security information and event management, endpoint protection and threat detection. Because all three run on one data store, organisations frequently adopt the platform for one purpose and extend it to the others.
Elastic sells through a managed cloud service on the major hyperscalers as well as self managed deployments, and its cloud business has become the larger part of its revenue. The company maintains a distinctive relationship with open source: much of the codebase remains publicly available and the surrounding community is large, while certain features are reserved for commercial licences. The project's licence has changed more than once, and the company returned core parts of the stack to an open source licence in 2024.
Engineering at Elastic is unusually concentrated on distributed systems fundamentals. The work involves index and storage design, query planning and execution, cluster coordination and resilience, compression and tiered storage, and the machine learning and vector search capabilities layered on top. Because customers run clusters holding petabytes of data, performance and correctness at scale are constant constraints.
For candidates, the company offers deep systems engineering work within a fully distributed organisation. Roles cover distributed systems and search engineering, cloud and site reliability engineering, security research, machine learning, solutions architecture, developer relations and technical support engineering.
As a verified employer on RefOpen, Elastic employees can refer prospective candidates directly into open roles, giving applicants a route into the company that starts with someone who already works there.
Elastic operates in search, observability and security software, is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States, employs around 1,001-5,000 people. 80 Elastic roles have been posted on RefOpen in the last 30 days.
Recent Elastic openings include AI QA Evaluation Engineer, Enterprise Account Executive, Consulting Architect, Inside Account Executive Japan and IT Support Admin. A referral matters most for roles like these, where the applicant pool is large and a recruiter decides in seconds whether to open your resume. Most of these roles are based in Bangalore.
RefOpen connects job seekers with verified Elastic employees who can submit an internal referral for open roles. A referral pushes your application to the top of the recruiter's list and improves your odds of landing an interview.
Explore the latest Elastic job openings on RefOpen, request a referral in a few taps, and track your application end to end. Creating a profile and browsing jobs is free.