Company profile
Elastic
Elastic builds Elasticsearch, Kibana, and the Elastic platform for search, observability, and security analytics. Interviews are strongest on distributed search systems, indexing, query performance, observability workflows, and open-source product judgement in enterprise settings.
Interview process
With roughly 4K employees and headquarters in Amsterdam, NL, Elastic hires through dedicated recruiting teams, and loops at companies of this size tend to be structured, with each round scored against a written rubric. Interviewers are usually trained engineers and managers rather than the hiring manager alone, and candidates for security engineer, backend engineer, database engineer roles typically face separate rounds for core skills, design or case thinking, and behavioral fit. Open a role below for the questions and focus areas specific to that function.
Questions and process by role
Elastic hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Security engineer
Security engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
security - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering - Database engineer
Database engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering - Developer relations engineer
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering - Elixir engineer
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering - Embedded engineer
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering - Engineering manager
Engineering manager interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering - Forward-deployed engineer
Forward-deployed engineer interview questions and process at Elastic.
engineering
Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Elastic's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Elastic offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Elastic holds a 4.0 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.0