Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Ingest

Elastic; Portugal; On-site; EUR 56,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable ingestion pipelines for observability data. You will own mOTLP endpoints and agentless integrations across major clouds, helping ensure reliable data flow and user-friendly Kibana experiences.

You will collaborate across global time zones, mentor peers, and participate in on-call rotations. The role emphasizes distributed systems, microservices, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Intermediate to Expert Go skills with strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform) and Kafka
• At least Intermediate experience with Observability (tracing, metrics, logs, profiling)
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture and distributed systems, ability to understand tradeoffs between different solutions and familiarity with several parts and challenges for designing such systems.
• A positive attitude and a curious mindset with commitment to learning and self-enablement
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis and investigating to find the bottom of issues rather than accepting unexpected system behavior
• Ability to work independently in a globally distributed team, while ensuring to collaborate and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Experience with or interest in OpenTelemetry
• You work autonomously and can drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate feature development, debug complex systems, and optimize existing codebases.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy and maintain high-performing, scalable features within the different products we own, including Managed Inputs (mOTLP endpoints) and Managed Integrations (Agentless architecture).
• Take ownership of projects and features, leading them from concept to delivery.
• Provide engineering level support to escalated customer cases, on a rotation basis.
• Provide mentorship and feedback to peers through pull request reviews, ensuring code quality and promoting best practices within the team.
• Monitor alerts, build SLIs and SLOs and ensure system stability.
• Cultivate a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture across timezones.
• You will be on call for services we own.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Microservices

Distributed systems

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Elastic is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable ingestion pipelines for observability data. You will own mOTLP endpoints and agentless integrations across major clouds, helping ensure reliable data flow and user-friendly Kibana experiences.

You will collaborate across global time zones, mentor peers, and participate in on-call rotations. The role emphasizes distributed systems, microservices, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.