Senior Software Engineer, Go

Who you are

• Production experience using Go 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
• 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

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

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)