This role pays less than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$169,550–$265,125
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$206k
versus about
$217k
for comparable roles.
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About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
44 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$159,800–$252,800
across 43 roles with salary data.
As the Principal, Agentic Engineering Platform, you will lead the end-to-end initiative to design, build, and refine agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step delivery workflows for the global services organization. You will establish technical standards, manage the platform roadmap, and develop sophisticated workflows utilizing LLM orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and structured output processing. Your daily work involves creating evaluation frameworks to assess performance across accuracy and reliability while implementing tracing for troubleshooting production issues. The role requires expertise in Python, prompt engineering, and developer tools like Claude Code or Codex. You will solve technical challenges related to migration automation for SIEM and observability projects, ensuring that automated systems enhance human judgment. Key focus areas include security best practices, robust system architecture, and integrating agentic workflows into existing professional services processes.
Remote (Palo Alto, CA)+14 days ago
$242,634–$499,541
AI/ML Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Generative AI
Recommender Systems
C++
Java
Rust
Data Orchestration
Model Training
Fine-tuning
Inference
Feature Stores
Multimodal Data Management