Curriculum Developer

Are you a software engineer who loves education? Do you want to meet lots of new people and teach analysts how to use Elasticsearch? Come join us at Elastic! In this role, you will support our distributed team of Education Engineers through creating and developing new educational materials for classroom and online training. You will also help maintain existing courseware and create software tools for interactive learning.

This opportunity has a direct influence on helping us grow and expand our education program by creating new courses for in-person and on-demand as well as helping build a certification program. The education materials you help build will be used by thousands of people every year!

Our ideal candidate thrives in an autonomous setting, taking the initiative to independently deliver results, as most of the team works remotely, and we are happy to consider you wherever you live.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Ensure Elastic Security courseware remains up to date with the fast-evolving features of the Elastic Stack while incorporating feedback from students and collaborating with education engineers and cross-functional stakeholders for both in-person and OnDemand content.

• Create scripts, programs, and other similar technical artifacts that will assist the students in their learning environment and labs for courses

• Stay current with the latest developments in the Elastic Stack and similar technologies by actively engaging with GitHub repositories and other communication channels, fostering an approach of continual improvement and exploration.

What You Bring Along:

• A minimum of 4-years experience working as an engineer, developer, or integrator in information retrieval or related technologies

• A minimum of 2 years experience building and developing curriculum in collaboration with key stakeholders and other teams.

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity methodologies and tools used to detect and mitigate cyber threats to ensure robust and up-to-date security measures are integrated into system and curriculum development processes

• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related engineering subject area

• A capacity to learn new things quickly and express your knowledge in a meaningful way

• Solid understanding of a programming language (and related ecosystem and libraries) in Windows or Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with search, databases and distributed systems

• A desire to learn as much as possible about the internals and use cases of the Elastic Stack

• Strong communication skills while multitasking at a rapid pace

• Excitement to work with a highly distributed team and collaborative environment

Bonus Points:

• MS or Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related engineering subject area

  • Experience in any of the following:

  • Version Control (Git, SCM)

  • Dev Ops (Ansible, Puppet, Salt)

  • Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

  • Scripting (Bash, Powershell)

  • Programming (Python, Ruby, C#, etc.)