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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 components 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 deployment via operators and Helm Charts. Key responsibilities include advancing OpenTelemetry standards, improving log shipping infrastructure, and coordinating with engineering and UX teams to deliver seamless telemetry pipelines. Candidates must possess deep technical expertise in the Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry architectures, and cloud-native orchestration. The role solves complex problems regarding how organizations collect, manage, and derive insights from logs, metrics, and application traces at scale.
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 collector infrastructure at scale.
Lead the release strategy for cloud-native deployments using Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts.
Advance OpenTelemetry as a primary data shipper by guiding the development of receivers and exporters.
Manage the product lifecycle and performance enhancements for Filebeat, Beats, and Logstash.
Act as a public spokesperson for Elastic’s agent framework and collector ecosystem at industry events.
What we're looking for
Minimum five years of experience 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 in 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).