Tech Lead, Agent Framework - Observability

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$159,800–$252,800 / yr
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56 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Tech Lead, Agent Framework - Observability

Tech Lead, Agent Framework - Observability serves as a technical leader for the Agent Framework team, where you will own the architecture and set the technical direction for the agent layer to support the Streams model. You will design scalable architectures, evaluate new technologies to improve performance, conduct code reviews, and provide guidance to team members while collaborating with product management to prioritize features. The role requires deep expertise in Go, observability data collection including metrics, logs, and traces, and experience with protocols like OTLP, Prometheus Remote Write, and syslog. You will manage distributed deployments and control planes using protocol-driven approaches like OpAMP. This position addresses the technical challenge of moving data from edge collection through cloud processing within a unified platform for search, security, and observability.

What you'll do

  • Design and own the scalable architecture for the agent layer to support the Streams model.
  • Evaluate and implement new technologies to improve system performance and infrastructure.
  • Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and mentor team members on engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate with product management to gather requirements and prioritize features based on stakeholder input.
  • Lead large, multi-team technical initiatives from the design phase through to final deployment.
  • Author high-quality design documents and ADRs to build consensus and document technical decisions.
  • Identify project risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure alignment with changing priorities.

What we're looking for

  • Experience as a technical lead or principal engineer on agent, daemon, or systems-level software projects at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of observability data collection including metrics, logs, traces, and protocols like OTLP and Prometheus Remote Write.
  • Solid background in Go programming.
  • Experience designing management and control planes for distributed software using protocol-driven approaches like OpAMP.
  • Proven track record of leading large, multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous design to shipped software.
  • Ability to produce high-quality design documents and ADRs that are trusted by others.
  • Experience with Elastic Agent, Fleet, Beats, or OpenTelemetry internals (preferred).
  • Experience with cross-platform testing across Linux, Windows, MacOS, containers, and Kubernetes (preferred).

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