Software Engineer, Elastic
Observability - Ingest - Go / OTel / Profiling
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
Open for applications
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
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
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
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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