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Elastic

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Explore Elastic careers in search, observability, and security analytics. Learn about engineering roles, interview processes, and salaries at the Elasticsearch company.

Website

elastic.co

Industry

Enterprise Software

Year founded

2012

Employees

3,000

About

Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, the distributed search and analytics engine that powers search experiences for thousands of organizations worldwide.

The company provides the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) for search, logging, security, and observability use cases.

Elastic serves enterprises, government agencies, and developers who need to search, analyze, and visualize data at scale.

Founded by the creators of Elasticsearch, Elastic has grown from an open-source project into a publicly-traded company serving millions of downloads monthly.

Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Mountain View, California, United States
Key leadership
Shay Banon (Founder & CTO), Ash Kulkarni (CEO)

Notable highlights

  • Creator and maintainer of Elasticsearch, one of the most popular open-source search engines
  • Elastic Stack downloaded over 1 billion times
  • Serves customers including Netflix, Microsoft, eBay, and Uber
  • Strong presence in observability, security analytics, and enterprise search markets
  • Maintains both open-source and commercial licensing models

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