Remote Observability Solution Chief Architect

Summary

Join Elastic, the Search AI Company, as a Distinguished Engineer to shape the technical aspect of the Elastic’s observability solution. You will work hand in hand with the Observability solution and Platform leadership to define our technical strategy.

Requirements

• You have extensive experience in a technical leadership role with at least one of the pillars of observability: Logs, Metrics, APM, Synthetic Monitoring or Profiling
• You have worked as an architect or technical lead on large projects involving 100 engineers or more and spanning over multiple years and releases
• You work with a high level of autonomy
• Experience using or managing the Elastic Stack
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

• Leading the efforts to evolve the architecture of the Elastic Observability solution and the roadmap to implement it
• Understanding and describing the whole arc of the user experience for each of the Observability solution use cases, and developing features that fit into that arc
• Collaborating actively with the other technical leads from our Solutions and Platform teams to align priorities and roadmaps
• Leading technical discussions and requirements analysis with partners and customers to drive alignment with customer needs
• Reviewing and approving implementation designs for Observability
• Communicating and evangelizing the Observability roadmap internally and with the community
• Representing Elastic at conferences and networking events where you will highlight the work of the Elastic and Observability teams
• Participating in recruiting efforts : interviewing and hiring tech leads for the team
• Mentoring tech leads

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave