Observability - Platform Monitoring Tech Lead/Principal Engineer
Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.
The Observability team is in charge of developing solutions that focus on application developers and engineers that run infrastructure and services supporting these applications. Elasticsearch is an efficient datastore for logs, metrics, and application traces, supporting the three pillars of observability. The Observability team builds and maintains solutions that make getting insights from this data turnkey and efficient, such as our APM, Infrastructure Monitoring and Synthetics products. When developing these solutions, we think about the problem end-to-end: how do we automatically collect data from common data sources, how do we store it efficiently in Elasticsearch, how do we present this information to the user, what actions do we take on the insights from the data? All of these aspects are important in bringing a turnkey solution to the market.
The role
As the Tech Lead for Platform Monitoring in Observability and as part of the Infrastructure Monitoring organization, you will be working in the team focusing on providing multiple ways to ingest logs and metrics from Cloud Providers, Kubernetes and other orchestrators as well as working with other teams in defining the end-to-end monitoring experience for these platforms. The goal of this team is to build high quality, high performance, low overhead and easy to use solutions that help our users to reduce MTTD and MTTR. You will lead by example and should participate in coding, debugging complex failure scenarios, and triaging bugs. You’ll analyze the current system, it’s strengths and limitations. You will participate in roadmap and project planning efforts and will have ownership for delivering it. You’ll also be involved in project management efforts as the teams complete plans together with the Team Lead and Product Manager.
The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates on a daily basis over GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.
Engineering philosophy
We believe that engineering complex, pluggable software for the web that is built to last the test of time is both tricky and exciting. Doing so requires a team of diverse individuals, with sharp minds and the ability to empathize with our users, working together with mutual respect and a common mission.
We care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you're working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible throughout our organization. At Elastic, hierarchy does not determine how decisions get made. We feel that anyone needs to be in the position to comment on anything, regardless of their role within the company.
What you will be working on
- Provide Technical Leadership for the Platform Monitoring team.
- Collaborate with product design and multiple teams across Elastic in defining and evolving the end-to-end experience for Infrastructure Monitoring in Elastic Observability.
- Be a contact point for other teams within Elastic. Examples include helping Support with difficult cases or aligning with the teams providing the foundations for developing integrations or consulting the Elastic Stack engineers with designing new features.
- Be hands-on with the codebase. Review work done in the team, and provide constructive feedback to engineers
- Help the team define coding practices and standards.
What you will bring along
- Experience developing and reviewing complex technical requirements, and translating them into actionable tasks for engineers.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and been a main POC for their team across a company
- Experience driving end-to-end architectural discussions across teams and organizations.
- Previous experience providing technical leadership for a team of senior engineers
- Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Observability, Monitoring, Performance or Availability tools or services, preferably in the infrastructure monitoring area.
- Full-stack hands-on experience. Go is the main language of the teams.
- Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adapt the messaging to different perspectives (technical, business) and levels of detail.
Bonus points for
- Experience working on Open Source projects.
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
- Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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