Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability

Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability joins the Observability team to drive the strategy and execution for edge telemetry collectors and remote management capabilities. This individual will own 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. Key responsibilities include defining product roadmaps, overseeing agent architecture and distribution, and managing Kubernetes deployments via operators and Helm Charts. The role requires deep technical expertise in OpenTelemetry standards, receiver/exporter architectures, and cloud-native orchestration. Candidates must possess experience in infrastructure observability, telemetry collection, or agent frameworks. They will navigate the balance between open-source contributions and enterprise requirements while collaborating with engineering and UX teams to deliver scalable management capabilities for complex data pipelines involving logs, metrics, and application traces.

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What you'll do

  • Define the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and execution roadmap for Elastic Agent and telemetry collectors.
  • Track key performance indicators regarding agent deployment success, pipeline efficiency, and OpenTelemetry adoption.
  • Oversee the packaging, testing, and distribution of various Elastic Agent and OpenTelemetry distributions.
  • Drive remote management capabilities to ensure large-scale deployment and configuration of collector infrastructure.
  • 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 collector 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 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 is preferred.

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