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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
240 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability joins the Observability team to drive strategy and execution for edge telemetry collectors and remote management capabilities. The 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. Key responsibilities include defining product roadmaps, overseeing agent architecture and distribution, managing Kubernetes deployments via operators and Helm Charts, and advancing OpenTelemetry standards as a primary data shipper. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical expertise in log shippers, infrastructure observability, and cloud-native orchestration. This role solves the complex problem of building scalable collector management systems to provide seamless telemetry pipelines for enterprise-grade environments, ensuring efficient data collection across remote architectures while balancing upstream open-source contributions with specific enterprise requirements.
What does a Product Manager earn in Remote?
Median $207754 from 108 postings across 33 companies.
Act as a public spokesperson for Elastic’s agent framework and collector capabilities at industry events.
What we're looking for
Minimum of 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.
Previous experience in IT Ops, DevOps, SRE, or as a customer-facing solution architect/consultant (preferred).
Strong familiarity with the Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.