Observability - Control Plane - Software Engineer II (Go, Cross-Platform)

Referral Board; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer II and work on cutting-edge observability tools. This role offers the chance to contribute to a high-impact product that enhances data collection and management across platforms. Collaborate with a diverse engineering team and engage with a vibrant community to deliver enterprise-ready software solutions. Enjoy a flexible work environment that values diversity and supports your career growth while ensuring a healthy work-life balance. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive Pay

Health Coverage

Flexible Locations

Generous Vacation Days

Donation Matching

Volunteer Time Off

Parental Leave

Qualifications

• System-level knowledge of Linux, Windows, and/or macOS.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the current Beats platform and Elastic Agent.
• Design and build features for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Skills

Go

Linux

Windows

macOS

Docker

Kubernetes

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Tools

Elastic Agent

Fleet Server

Job description

Observability - Control Plane - Software Engineer II (Go, Cross-Platform)

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 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 are responsible for 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 looking for an engineer to join us in building unified and flexible data collection and management. This person will continue to expand the team's work in deploying and scaling Elastic Agent on Kubernetes using the Operator pattern. If you are looking to work on a high-impact, high-adoption product with a diverse and versatile engineering team, please come join us!

What You Will Be Doing

• Maintain and evolve the current Beats platform, Elastic Agent, and Fleet Server, all written in Go.
• Design and build features for macOS, Windows and Linux.
• Work with our support team to help customers.
• Engage with our community, understand their needs, and help them use our products.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ship enterprise-ready software.

What You Will Bring

• System-level knowledge of either Linux, Windows, and/or macOS.
• Experience participating in technical conversations.
• Operational experience with monitoring systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, strong problem solving, and ability to debug and fix sophisticated issues.
• Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Bonus:Experience collecting data on the edge and shipping to a central place.
• Bonus:Production experience with cross-platform development and packaging.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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 the recruiting process, please email [e-mail] We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

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