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Elastic Observability - Distinguished Software Developer 
United States 
615730342

03.09.2024

In this role you will be key to shape the technical aspect of the Elastic’s observability solution. You will work hand in hand with the Observability solution and Platform leadership to define our technical strategy. As the most senior technology leader in the observability team (distinguished software developer level) you will help us achieve our ambitious goals in collaboration with the rest of the software development group. We are looking for an individual contributor who has experience building Observability products either for Logs, Metrics or APM who can help us evolve our Observability platform. If you have made critical decisions in the evolution of a big product and platform over multiple years and releases, and you can lead a large team with a coherent vision while making appropriate compromises along the way, we want to hear from you!

  • Leading the efforts to evolve the architecture of the Elastic Observability solution and the roadmap to implement it. Providing a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex technical challenges.
  • Understanding and describing the whole arc of the user experience for each of the Observability solution use cases, and developing features that fit into that arc.
  • Collaborating actively with the other technical leads from our Solutions and Platform teams to align priorities and roadmaps, with other leads driving Elastic’s OpenTelemetry contributions, and making appropriate technology choices and compromises
  • Leading technical discussions and requirements analysis with partners and customers to drive alignment with customer needs
  • Reviewing and approving implementation designs for Observability
  • Communicating and evangelizing the Observability roadmap internally and with the community
  • Representing Elastic at conferences and networking events where you will highlight the work of the Elastic and Observability teams
  • Participating in recruiting efforts : interviewing and hiring tech leads for the team
  • Mentoring tech leads

What You Will Be Doing

  • Leading the efforts to evolve the architecture of the Elastic Observability solution and the roadmap to implement it. Providing a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex technical challenges.
  • Understanding and describing the whole arc of the user experience for each of the Observability solution use cases, and developing features that fit into that arc.
  • Collaborating actively with the other technical leads from our Solutions and Platform teams to align priorities and roadmaps, with other leads driving Elastic’s OpenTelemetry contributions, and making appropriate technology choices and compromises
  • Leading technical discussions and requirements analysis with partners and customers to drive alignment with customer needs
  • Reviewing and approving implementation designs for Observability
  • Communicating and evangelizing the Observability roadmap internally and with the community
  • Representing Elastic at conferences and networking events where you will highlight the work of the Elastic and Observability teams
  • Participating in recruiting efforts : interviewing and hiring tech leads for the team
  • Mentoring tech leads

What You Bring

  • You have extensive experience in a technical leadership role with at least one of the pillars of observability: Logs, Metrics, APM, Synthetic Monitoring or Profiling.
  • You have worked as an architect or technical lead on large projects involving 100 engineers or more and spanning over multiple years and releases
  • You work with a high level of autonomy
  • Experience using or managing the Elastic Stack
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills. Written skills are key to success in working with our distributed teams.

Bonus Points

  • Record of successfully inheriting existing medium-to-large scale projects
  • Experience developing APM and Logging products at scale
  • Experience running or significantly contributing to an open source project. Contributions to any of these are welcome: OpenTelemetry, OpenCensus, Prometheus, OpenTracing, CNCF, etc

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

Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $300,800—$475,900 CAD