Senior Software Engineer - Streams - Observability

The Observability Streams team at Elastic is building Elastic's unified data pipeline, the layer that connects where your data comes from to where it lands, with full control over how it's processed and routed along the way.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Streams Backend team, you will help drive the design and development of new features across the Streams Backend service and Logstash, contribute to the OpenTelemetry Collector, and support our users and enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new features for Logstash and its plugins in Java and JRuby.
• Designing, building, and operating core backend services for the Streams program in Golang.
• Adding new features, and making contributions to the Open Telemetry Collector in Golang.
• Solving hard distributed systems problems at scale.
• Maintaining, updating and improving existing code and dependencies while ensuring automated test coverage.
• Engaging with multiple public GitHub repositories and community forums.
• Providing Pull Request reviews and guidance to your peers.
• Collaborating with other teams to drive product goals.
• Working together with the support organization to help our customers, which will also include participating in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Ability to work in a remote-first, highly distributed environment, with top-notch verbal and written communication.
• Proficient analytical, problem-solving, debugging skills and ability to find efficient solutions.
• Critical thinking, positivity, autonomy and adaptability.
• Expertise in at least one of Java, Golang and Ruby, and willingness to learn and work with the others and ability to adapt to regularly working in different codebases.
• Clear written communication and the ability to work proficiently in a remote-first, highly distributed team.
• A proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with observability tools and concepts (tracing, metrics, logging), especially experience with or interest in OpenTelemetry
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• JRuby development
• Open source software development
• Knowledge of stream processing platforms (such as Kafka), database technologies (e.g., Postgres or MySQL) and network technologies (e.g., TCP, UDP and HTTP).
• Exposure to the Elastic stack.

Benefits

• 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
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave