Observability - Ingest - Software Engineer II (Go / OTel / Profiling)
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By takingకి advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role The Observability Ingest team at Elastic build tools and services to collect and ingest data easily, efficiently, and quickly into Elastic.
The Observability Ingest team is seeking a Software Engineer (Go) to help drive our ingestion features and OpenTelemetry (OTel) contributions and activities around application profiling and infrastructure monitoring topics.
What You Will Be Doing * Authoring code on a fully distributed team of engineers and as part of the Open T
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and cross-team efforts
- Represent Elastic in the OTel community, influencing the community towards a shared vendor-neutral vision that benefits Elastic and our users
- Review pull requests, read and write design documents, develop automated testing strategies and manual test plans, and participate in team and product discussions
- Actively participate in and contribute to selected OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
- Collaborate with product management, design, and other teams within Elastic to ship compelling features for the infrastructure monitoring and profiling domain
- Foster a culture of mutual respect and collaborative decision-making
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and 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 - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
- Professional experience with Go at scale
- Experience with Open Source (preferably OpenTelemetry)
- System-level knowledge of Linux
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Interest, flexibility and willingness in learning new technologies
- Passion for technical challenges
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills
- Communication skills (verbal and written, e.g. for meetings, blog posts or presentations
Bonus Points * Knowledge / touch points with application profiling in general (buzzwords: eBPF, perf, on-CPU, off-CPU profiling, stacktraces) * Testing and benchmarking * Knowledge in assembler, ideally arm64 or amd64 * Docker, bash, python, Java, JS / Typescript * Data visualization
