Elastic hiring trends
What Elastic's hiring actually looks like over time — which roles stay open, which get pulled, and where headcount is really going.
Last checked 02 October 2026
390
Open now
195
Filled or pulled
80
Teams hiring
Open the longest
A role that stays open for months usually means the bar is high, the pay is off, or nobody is saying yes.
| Role | Location | Opened |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch | United States | 11 months ago |
| Consulting Architect - Search | India | 10 months ago |
| Consulting Architect - Observability | India | 10 months ago |
| Consulting Architect - Platform | India | 10 months ago |
| Senior Solutions Architect (NATO) | Belgium | 9 months ago |
| Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch | United States | 8 months ago |
| Principal Competitive Intelligence - Search - Product Marketing | United States | 7 months ago |
| Principal Competitive Intelligence - Search - Product Marketing | Canada | 7 months ago |
| Enterprise Account Executive - West | California, United States | 7 months ago |
| Enterprise Account Executive - West | Colorado, United States | 7 months ago |
Roles posted more than once
These roles were taken down and then advertised again — a revolving door, and worth asking about in an interview.
| Role | Times posted |
|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch | 10 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch | 9 |
| Senior Information Security Infrastructure Engineer - Security Architecture - InfoSec | 7 |
| Enterprise Account Executive | 4 |
| ABM Manager, Global Public Sector | 2 |
| ABM Regional Manager, AMER | 2 |
| Customer Architect | 2 |
| Mid Market Account Executive | 2 |
| Mid-Market Account Executive | 2 |
| Senior Customer Architect | 2 |
This page gets better with age. It is built from a daily record that started the day we began watching Elastic. Every day it runs, there is more history here that cannot be reconstructed from anywhere else — because the original posts are deleted.
Job posts get deleted. We keep them.
FirstIn watches company job boards at the source and tells you the moment a role opens — and keeps the record after it's taken down, so you can see what really happened to a team's hiring.