Systems Senior Software Developer (Go or C++) - Observability

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h3><strong>What is The Role</strong></h3> <p>The Observability Ingest team at Elastic is responsible for building tools to<a href="https://www.elastic.co/integrations/" target="_blank"> collect and ingest data easily, efficiently, and quickly</a>. Learn more about them on our website<a href="https://www.elastic.co/elastic-agent" target="_blank"> here</a> or even better by testing the data ingestion user experience yourself on<a href="https://cloud.elastic.co/login?redirectTo=%2Fhome" target="_blank"> Elastic Cloud</a>. 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.</p> <p>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!</p> <h3><strong>What You Will Be Doing</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Maintain and evolve the current Elastic Agent, Fleet Server and Beats platforms, all written in Go.</li> <li>Improve and maintain the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT), an open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.</li> <li>Support services running as part of Elastic Cloud Serverless and Elastic Cloud Hosted.</li> <li>Design and build features to work across macOS, Windows and Linux platforms.</li> <li>Work with our support team to help customers.</li> <li>Collaborate with other engineering teams to ship enterprise-ready software.</li> </ul> <h3>What You Bring </h3> <ul> <li>Production experience using Go for systems development.</li> <li>System programming experience on Linux, Windows, and/or macOS.</li> <li>Experience participating in complex technical conversations.</li> <li>Experience with operational monitoring and restoring production services.</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication, strong problem solving, and ability to debug and fix sophisticated issues.</li> <li>Ability to work in a team distributed throughout the world.</li> </ul> <h3>Bonus Points</h3> <ul> <li>Experience collecting data on the edge and shipping to a central place.</li> <li>Production experience with cross-platform development and packaging.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Experience with observability platforms and tools, such as OpenTelemetry, OpAMP.</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. </p> <p>These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future. </p> <p>An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors ... (truncated, view full listing at source)