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Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability joins the Observability team to drive strategy and execution for edge telemetry collectors and remote management capabilities. This role involves owning the vision for Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, and the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), while managing legacy systems like Filebeat, the Beats ecosystem, and Logstash. The position focuses on building scalable collector management systems, defining product roadmaps, and overseeing agent architecture, distribution, and Kubernetes-based deployments using Helm Charts. Key responsibilities include advancing OpenTelemetry standards as a primary data shipper and ensuring efficient telemetry pipelines for enterprise users. Candidates must possess deep technical expertise in log shippers, infrastructure observability, and the Elastic Stack. The role addresses the complex challenge of managing distributed edge collection systems to provide seamless insights from logs, metrics, and application traces across remote architectures.
What does a Product Manager earn in Remote?
Median $207754 from 108 postings across 33 companies.
Oversee the packaging, testing, and distribution of various Elastic Agent and OpenTelemetry distributions.
Drive remote management capabilities to ensure seamless configuration and control of infrastructure at scale.
Manage the release strategy for cloud-native deployments using Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts.
Advance OpenTelemetry as a primary data shipper by guiding development of receivers and exporters.
Oversee the maintenance and enhancement of Filebeat, the Beats ecosystem, and Logstash.
Act as a public spokesperson for Elastic’s agent framework and collection capabilities at industry events.
What we're looking for
At minimum five years in a Product Management role focused on enterprise infrastructure observability, telemetry collection, or agent frameworks.
Deep technical familiarity with collectors, log shippers, and agent ecosystems including OpenTelemetry Collector, Elastic Agent, Filebeat/Beats, and Logstash.
Proven track record defining requirements for remote agent management, fleet control planes, or distributed edge collection systems.
Familiarity with Kubernetes operators, Helm Charts, and cloud-native orchestration and release management.
Expertise in OpenTelemetry standards, receivers, exporters, and OpenTelemetry Collector architectures.
Experience working with open-source communities to balance upstream contributions with enterprise product requirements.
Strong familiarity with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats).
Previous experience in IT Ops, DevOps, SRE, or as a customer-facing solution architect/consultant (preferred).