Software Engineer, Elastic

Observability Ingest, Go / OTel / Profiling

Salary not provided

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Java

Bash

Linux

Mid and Senior level

Remote from Ireland, Spain, UK

Software that searches and analyses data in real time

Be an early applicant

Software that searches and analyses data in real time

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsSaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Java

Bash

Linux

Mid and Senior level

Remote from Ireland, Spain, UK

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsSaaS

Company mission

To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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)

Desirable

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

What the job involves

The Observability Ingest team at Elastic builds 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
Authoring code on a fully distributed team of engineers and as part of the OpenTelemetry community, supporting the Observability Ingest team’s mission, specifically around the OTel Collector and the eBPF-based profiling components in OpenTelemetry
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

Our take

Elastic develops the Elastic Stack, an open-source set of tools that includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, designed for data search and analysis. It also offers X-Pack, which adds commercial features to the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products.

This technology is widely used by major companies like eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix, along with over 17,000 other organizations. It is applied in various use cases, including application and website search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management (APM), security analytics (enhancing SIEM applications), and business analytics.

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Insights

Top investors

8% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jul 2016

$58m

SERIES D

Jun 2014

$70m

SERIES C

Total funding: $162m

Company benefits

Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Shay Banon

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously held the position of Technology Director at GigaSpaces Technologies.

Simon Willnauer

(Co-Founder)

Previously spent 13 years at The Apache Software Foundation, holding various positions such as VP Apache Lucene and Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member.

Uri Boness

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as a Software Architect and Head of Search at Orange11 for 7 years.

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