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Principal software developer/Tech Lead, Agent Framework - Observability

Elastic · Canada

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
64 days
Elastic's roles stay open a median of 53 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Elastic's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Elastic
high
208 stale, 5 reposted of 372 open
Hiring momentum
495 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

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About this role

In this role, you will lead the architecture and technical direction of Elastic's Agent Framework team, focusing on the agent layer that supports the Streams model. Your responsibilities include designing scalable architecture, evaluating new technologies, conducting code reviews, and collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize features. You will also mentor team members and facilitate cross-team collaboration to ensure project success.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Elastic as an employer.

What you need

  • Proven experience as a technical lead or principal engineer on an agent, daemon, or systems-level software project at scale managing distributed deployments, versioning, and backward compatibility.
  • Deep knowledge of observability data collection: metrics, logs, traces, and the protocols that carry them (OTLP, Prometheus Remote Write, syslog, etc.).
  • Solid background in Go (Elastic Agent and Beats are primarily Go).
  • Experience designing management and control planes for distributed software, particularly protocol-driven approaches like OpAMP.
  • Track record of leading large, multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous design space to shipped software.
  • Proven ability to seamlessly transition between different projects and codebases, and work with different teams based on dynamic business priorities.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience with Elastic Agent, Fleet, Beats, or OpenTelemetry collector internals.
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry collector configuration, OTLP transport, or upstream contribution.
  • Experience with cross platform testing and developer productivity spanning all of Linux, Windows, MacOS, containers, and Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge about pipeline execution models and processing languages (Streamlang, Logstash, Fluent, etc.).
  • Experience with CloudFormation, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tooling in the context of agent deployment.

What you get

  • 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

Worth weighing

  • No variable compensation component mentioned, only base salary and stock program eligibility.
  • Role involves significant leadership and architectural responsibilities, which may require navigating complex stakeholder dynamics.
  • The position is remote, which may require strong self-management skills and comfort with asynchronous communication.

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Listed by Elastic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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