Senior Systems Software Engineer, Elastic
Go or C++, Observability
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
Open for applications
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- Production experience using Go or C/C++ 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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!
- 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
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
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
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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