Technical Lead (Agent Framework, Observability)

Elastic; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health coverage

Flexible schedule

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Volunteer time

Charitable matching

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic is seeking a tech lead for the Agent Framework team in Madrid to own the architecture, set the technical direction, and be the primary decision-maker for how the agent layer evolves to support the Streams model.

You will design scalable architectures, evaluate new technologies, conduct reviews, and mentor engineers while coordinating with product to prioritize features. Deep Go expertise, distributed-systems experience, and strong documentation are essential.

Formación

• Proven ability to transition between projects and codebases across teams.
• Experience as a technical lead or principal engineer for agent or systems-level software at scale.
• Solid background in Go (Elastic Agent and Beats).
• Experience designing management and control planes for distributed software.
• Knowledge of observability data collection: metrics, logs, traces, and OTLP/OpenTelemetry.

Responsabilidades

• Own architecture and technical direction for the Agent Framework team.
• Lead architectural discussions and drive decision-making.
• Provide technical guidance and conduct code reviews.
• Engage with stakeholders and prioritize features.
• Coordinate cross-team efforts and mitigate project risks.

Conocimientos

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Go programming

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Stakeholder collaboration

OpenTelemetry

Documentation

Herramientas

Go

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Descripción del empleo

• Elastic's Streams program is the unified platform for getting data into Elasticsearch from edge collection all the way through cloud processing. At the edge, Elastic Agent and Beats are how data leaves customer infrastructure
• This role is the tech lead position for the Agent Framework team: you will own the architecture, set the technical direction, and be the primary decision-maker for how Elastic's agent layer evolves to support the Streams model
• Design a scalable and capable architecture for the agent layer. Evaluate and implement new technologies to boost system performance. Conduct reviews of existing architecture to identify areas for improvement and lead architectural discussions to drive decision-making
• Provide technical guidance and support to team members while fostering a culture of continuous learning. Conduct code reviews and offer constructive feedback to improve team performance. Lead by example, demonstrating engineering best practices and setting high standards for quality
• Engage with stakeholders to gather their requirements and expectations appropriately. Collaborate with the product management team to prioritize features based on the input gathered from stakeholders
• Facilitate collaboration across teams by organizing meetings and coordinating efforts. Identify potential risks that could hinder project success and take initiative-taking measures to mitigate them. Adjust project plans in response to changing priorities or feedback from stakeholders to ensure alignment

Benefits

• Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
• Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
• Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
• Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
• Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you're passionate about.
• Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving - we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).

Proven ability to seamlessly transition between different projects and codebases, and work with different teams based on dynamic business prioritiesComfortable with the full arc of a technical decision: writing the design doc, socializing it across stakeholders, building consensus, and holding the line on what mattersProven 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 compatibilitySolid background in Go (Elastic Agent and Beats are primarily Go)Experience designing management and control planes for distributed software, particularly protocol-driven approaches like OpAMPDeep knowledge of observability data collection: metrics, logs, traces, and the protocols that carry them (OTLP, Prometheus Remote Write, syslog, etc.)Great written communication; you produce design docs and ADRs that others trust and reference long after the decision is madeTrack record of leading large, multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous design space to shipped softwareDirect experience with Elastic Agent, Fleet, Beats, or OpenTelemetry collector internalsExperience with OpenTelemetry collector configuration, OTLP transport, or upstream contributionExperience with cross-platform testing and developer productivity spanning all of Linux, Windows, MacOS, containers, and KubernetesKnowledge 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 deploymentContributions to open source projects in the observability or agent ecosystemComfort working async-first across a globally distributed team