Senior Go Backend Engineer – Observability Ingestion

Elastic; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is building high‑performing backend ingestion pipelines within the Observability organization. You will work on the Streams program to ingest telemetry from diverse sources, process it, and power Kibana experiences.

You will own features end-to-end, mentor peers, and help ensure reliability through monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, and on-call coverage. A strong Go background and experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and Kafka are essential.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Go with strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy and maintain high-performing, scalable features in Managed Inputs (mOTLP endpoints) and Managed Integrations across cloud providers.
• Take ownership of projects from concept to delivery and mentor peers.
• Provide engineering level support to escalated customer cases on a rotation basis.
• Monitor alerts, build SLIs/SLOs and ensure system stability.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture across timezones.
• On-call rotation for services (12h/day, 1–2 cycles every 8–10 weeks).

Skills

Go

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is building high‑performing backend ingestion pipelines within the Observability organization. You will work on the Streams program to ingest telemetry from diverse sources, process it, and power Kibana experiences.

You will own features end-to-end, mentor peers, and help ensure reliability through monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, and on-call coverage. A strong Go background and experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and Kafka are essential.