Responsibilities
- Design a scalable architecture for the agent layer, evaluate and implement new technologies to improve performance, review existing architecture for improvements, and lead architectural discussions to drive decisions.
- Provide technical guidance and support to team members, foster a culture of continuous learning, conduct code reviews, offer constructive feedback, and set high standards for quality through engineering best practices.
- Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and expectations, collaborate with product management to prioritize features based on stakeholder input.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration by organizing meetings and coordinating efforts, identify and mitigate project risks, and adjust plans in response to changing priorities or stakeholder feedback.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a technical lead or principal engineer on an agent, daemon, or systems-level software project at scale, managing distributed deployments, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Deep knowledge of observability data collection including metrics, logs, traces, and protocols such as OTLP, Prometheus Remote Write, and syslog.
- Solid background in Go, as Elastic Agent and Beats are primarily written in Go.
- Experience designing management and control planes for distributed software, particularly protocol-driven approaches like OpAMP.
- Track record of leading large, multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous design to shipped software.
- Proven ability to transition between different projects and codebases and work with various teams based on dynamic business priorities.
- Comfortable with the full arc of a technical decision: writing design docs, socializing across stakeholders, building consensus, and maintaining focus on what matters.
- Great written communication skills, producing design docs and ADRs that others trust and reference long after decisions are made.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience with Elastic Agent, Fleet, Beats, or OpenTelemetry collector internals.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry collector configuration, OTLP transport, or upstream contribution.
- Experience with cross-platform testing and developer productivity across Linux, Windows, MacOS, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of pipeline execution models and processing languages such as Streamlang, Logstash, or Fluent.
- Experience with CloudFormation, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tooling in the context of agent deployment.
- Contributions to open source projects in the observability or agent ecosystem.
- Comfort working async-first across a globally distributed team.
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here, not your previous salary.
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous number of vacation days each year.
- Increase your impact with up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) matched for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
- Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
Compensation
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Other
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- Ensure that all individual contributions follow Elastic’s Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
- Proactively participate in mandatory role-based training to ensure personal technical execution consistently aligns with the highest standards of data protection, data privacy, and system resilience.
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- Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
