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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.
What Is The Role The Observability Ingest team at Elastic builds tools and services to collect and ingest data quickly into Elastic. The team is seeking a Software Engineer (Go) to help drive our ingestion features and OpenTelemetry (OTel) contributions around application profiling and infrastructure monitoring.
What You Will Be Doing Author code on a fully distributed team of engineers and as part of the OpenTelemetry community, supporting the Observability Ingest team’s mission, specifically around the OTel Collector and the eBPF‑based profiling components in OpenTelemetry
Participate in technical architecture discussions and cross‑team efforts
Represent Elastic in the OTel community, influencing the community toward a shared vendor‑neutral vision that benefits Elastic and our users
Review pull requests, read and write design documents, develop automated testing strategies and manual test plans, and participate in team and product discussions
Actively participate in and contribute to selected OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Collaborate with product management, design, and other teams within Elastic to ship compelling features for the infrastructure monitoring and profiling domain
Foster a culture of mutual respect and collaborative decision‑making
What You Bring Professional experience with Go at scale
Experience with Open Source (preferably OpenTelemetry)
System‑level knowledge of Linux
Familiarity with Kubernetes
Interest, flexibility, and willingness to learn new technologies
Passion for technical challenges
Strong analytical, problem‑solving and debugging skills
Communication skills (verbal and written, e.g. meetings, blog posts or presentations)
Bonus Points Knowledge / touch points with application profiling in general (buzzwords: eBPF, perf, on‑CPU, off‑CPU profiling, stacktraces)
Testing and benchmarking
Knowledge in assembler, ideally arm64 or amd64
Docker, bash, python, Java, JS / TypeScript
Data visualization
Additional Information - We Take Care Of Our People 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 $2,000 (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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Elastic is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) poster. Please see here for our Privacy Statement.

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