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Principal Engineer/Tech Lead, Agent Framework - Observability

Referral Board · Spain

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
81 days
Referral Board's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Referral Board's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Referral Board
high
109 stale, 2 reposted of 109 open
Hiring momentum
138 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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About this role

In this role, you will lead the architecture and technical direction for the Agent Framework team at Elastic, focusing on the evolution of the agent layer to support the Streams model. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing scalable architectures, conducting code reviews, providing technical guidance, and collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize features and mitigate project risks.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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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.
  • Salary range provided is specific but may vary based on multiple factors.
  • Role involves leading architectural discussions and making significant technical decisions, which may require navigating complex stakeholder dynamics.

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Listed by Referral Board on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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