Senior Software Engineer

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, 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. 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. Experience with observability platforms and tools, such as OpenTelemetry, OpAMP. Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People: 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave. Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. 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What Elastic Has to Offer Elastic is the company behind the Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, Elastic helps people explore and analyze their data differently using the power of search. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, the New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission‑critical systems. Elastic offers their employees benefits like: 401(k) / Retirement Plan Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave Health coverage & vision insurance Flexible locations & schedules Work from home policy Generous vacation time & paid holidays #J-18808-Ljbffr