What Elastic is hiring right now
Open roles read straight from the applicant tracking system on Elastic's own career page, not from a job board. Counted daily, so the direction is visible as well as the number.
| Open roles | 249 |
| Departments | 79 |
| Countries | 21 |
| Flagged remote by the employer | 0 (0%) |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 249 |
| Median age of an open role | 23 days |
| Roles first seen in the last 14 days | 75 |
| Roles we have seen close | 65 |
Where the hiring sits: Platform - Elasticsearch (44), SSC (10), Sales Strategy & Operations (9), Security - Cross Team (8), Platform - Control Plane (8).
Where the roles sit: United States (64), Canada (25), Spain (13), Portugal (12).
Countries with the most openings: United States (92), Canada (25), Spain (23), United Kingdom (12).
The roles posted most recently
| Role | Where | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors | United States | 2026-08-20 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch | United States | 2026-08-20 |
| Principal Software Developer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch | Canada | 2026-08-20 |
| Senior Support Engineer | Bangalore, India | 2026-08-19 |
| Sales Operations Analyst - Public Sector | United States | 2026-08-18 |
| Director, Partner Ecosystem & Channel Enablement - Global Public Sector | United States | 2026-08-18 |
These are the six most recent of 249, as Elastic published them. The wording is the employer's own; we do not rewrite a job title any more than we rewrite a filing.
Why the count alone says little
A large company always has hundreds of open roles. What carries information is which way that number moves, and which departments it moves in. We record both openings and closures, so a role disappearing from Elastic's careers page is a recorded event rather than a silent absence.
Half of these roles were posted within the last 23 days, so this is a board that is actively moving rather than a backlog that has been sitting there.
Being straight about what this is
Not advice, and not a complete picture. This is one company's own careers page. It says nothing about revenue, headcount or plans, and we do not claim otherwise.
A short observation window. We started recording opens and closes on this set in August 2026, so "what changed" is weeks deep and grows daily. The posting dates above come from the employer and reach back further than our own record.
Refreshed once a night, read from eight applicant tracking systems. No salary fields and no candidate data: they are not in the source.
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