Senior Software Engineer (Go) - Observability

Senior Software Engineer (Go) - Observability

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 taking 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 is responsible for building tools to collect and ingest data easily, efficiently, and quickly. Learn more about them on our website here or even better by testing the data ingestion user experience yourself on Elastic Cloud. We maintain Elastic Agent as a unified data collector for Elastic solutions, Fleet as a central management platform, Integrations platform as a marketplace experience to discover and build third party integrations to bring data into Elastic stack, and data transformation and processing tooling of Logstash, ingest pipelines and runtime fields.

The Elastic Agent Control Plane team is seeking an engineer to join us in building unified and flexible data collection and management. Looking to work on a high-impact, high-adoption product with a diverse and versatile engineering team? If so, please join us!

What You Will Be Doing

• Maintain and evolve the current Elastic Agent, Fleet Server and Beats platforms, all written in Go.
• Improve and maintain the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT), an open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
• Support services running as part of Elastic Cloud Serverless and Elastic Cloud Hosted.
• Design and build features to work across macOS, Windows and Linux platforms.
• Work with our support team to help customers.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ship enterprise-ready software.

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

What You Bring

• Production experience using Go for systems development.
• System programming experience on Linux, Windows, and/or macOS.
• Experience participating in complex technical conversations.
• Experience with operational monitoring and restoring production services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, strong problem solving, and ability to debug and fix sophisticated issues.
• Ability to work in a team distributed throughout the world.

Bonus Points

• Experience collecting data on the edge and shipping to a central place.
• Production experience with cross-platform development and packaging.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes