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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.
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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 focuses on building scalable collector management systems and empowering users to manage enterprise-grade telemetry pipelines. You will own the vision for Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, and the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT), while overseeing the distribution of Filebeat and the Beats ecosystem. Key responsibilities include defining product roadmaps, managing Kubernetes deployments via operators and Helm Charts, and advancing OpenTelemetry standards as a primary data shipper. The role requires deep technical expertise in log shippers, agent frameworks, and the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. You will solve complex problems regarding how to collect, store, and manage logs, metrics, and traces across remote architectures for infrastructure and application developers.
What does a Product Manager earn in Remote?
Median $207754 from 108 postings across 33 companies.
Oversee the packaging, testing, and distribution of various telemetry collector distributions.
Drive remote management capabilities to ensure large-scale configuration and control of agent 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 repository, and Logstash.
Act as a public spokesperson for Elastic’s agent framework and collector ecosystem 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.
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).