What Is The Role :

Developers and community matter. Our users and contributors have helped ensure that the Elastic Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is more than just code — they are free and open projects that people love to use and love to talk about.

Are you keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Your activities as a Developer Advocate at Elastic would include:

• Speaking publicly at in-person and virtual conferences or meetups.
• Answering questions from developers on Discuss (our forum), Slack and other forums.
• Building and sharing content, including social media posts, in-depth blog posts, example code, demos, tutorials and videos on elastic.co or our YouTube channel.
• Contributing code on GitHub both to Elastic and external repositories.

The DevRel team's mission is to educate and help our users succeed by being (or the willingness to become) an expert in Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack within the search and AI ecosystem.

If you read this far and think: "that's me!" — You probably won't need to read any further, and we should have a conversation. But if you doubt the type of experience we expect you to have, read on.

What You Will Be Doing :

• Foster the Elastic Community in Europe (EMEA), with a local focus on Amsterdam.
• Create technical content around the Elastic Stack such as code examples, talks, blog posts, videos, and demos.
• Speak at virtual and in-person events like conferences, meetups, and lunch & learn sessions in the Amsterdam area and throughout EMEA.
• Answer technical questions on Discuss, Slack, developer forums, social media, and at events.
• Reviewing colleagues content for technical accuracy.
• Contribute to Elastic repositories or external ones to integrate better with Elastic technologies.
• Help users be successful with Elastic’s stack, solutions, and cloud offerings.

What You Bring :

• Strong technical background and experience in an engineering role.
• Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.
• Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make Elastic’s products better, and fix problems where possible.
• Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.
• A dedicated individual with experience working in self-organizing teams.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Bonus Points :

• Familiarity with and passion for the Elastic Stack.
• Proficiency in additional language(s) — speaking or programming (like Golang, Python, Java, or Rust).
• Production experience with technologies that complement Elastic’s technologies — from Generative AI to Kubernetes.
• Involvement in past Elastic Community events as speaker or organizer.
• Experience with open source software or commercial open source companies.

Elastic has seen significant growth in its work within the Public Sector over the last few years. This role will focus on delivery but also to lead the stakeholder relationships at the highest levels of Government and to work with them to help align Elastic to their strategic objectives.

You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering and sales team and wear many hats.  This is a critical role, as Consultants have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers.

Given the opportunity and the organisations that you will be working with, you must be a current holder of Security clearance.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• The ability to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers
• To work with the wider Elastic organisation to support the customer’s goals, their strategic requirements and their journey with Elastic.
• Ownership of the strategic roadmap with the customer including quarterly strategic sessions with senior and key stakeholders either in one or a number of customers with common goals.
• Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
• Data modelling, query development and optimisation, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
• Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions.
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns

What You Bring Along:

• Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Consultant, working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
• Currently holding  security clearance
• Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
• Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficient in at least one programming language
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
• The nature of the work that you will be doing will require a high percentage of work onsite with customers, and you should be expected to travel as a result of this requirement
• Understanding of Linux, Java and databases

Bonus Points:

• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
• Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems
• Experience and interest in delivering and/or developing product training
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation

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