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 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 and ensuring seamless deployment across remote architectures. Key responsibilities include defining product roadmaps, tracking KPIs for pipeline efficiency, and overseeing Kubernetes-based deployments using operators and Helm Charts. Candidates must possess deep technical expertise in OpenTelemetry standards, log shipping infrastructure, and the Elastic Stack. The role addresses the critical challenge of providing engineers with turnkey solutions to manage, collect, and store logs, metrics, and application traces across complex, distributed environments.

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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 configuration and control 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 the 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 like 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 is preferred.

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