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

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Requirements

  • Production experience using Go for systems development
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  • System programming experience on Linux, Windows, and/or macOS
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  • Experience participating in complex technical conversations
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  • Experience with operational monitoring and restoring production services
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  • Excellent verbal and written communication, strong problem solving, and ability to debug and fix sophisticated issues
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  • Ability to work in a team distributed throughout the world
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  • (Desirable) Experience collecting data on the edge and shipping to a central place
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  • (Desirable) Production experience with cross-platform development and packaging
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  • (Desirable) Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
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  • (Desirable) 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
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  • Learn more about them on our website here or even better by testing the data ingestion user experience yourself on Elastic Cloud
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  • 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
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  • The Elastic Agent Control Plane team is seeking an engineer to join us in building unified and flexible data collection and management
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  • Looking to work on a high-impact, high-adoption product with a diverse and versatile engineering team
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  • Maintain and evolve the current Elastic Agent, Fleet Server and Beats platforms, all written in Go
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  • Improve and maintain the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT), an open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector
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  • Support services running as part of Elastic Cloud Serverless and Elastic Cloud Hosted
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  • Design and build features to work across macOS, Windows and Linux platforms
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  • Work with our support team to help customers
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  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to ship enterprise-ready software
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