Job description
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
The Observability Ingest team at Elastic build tools to collect and ingest data easily, efficiently, and quickly. Learn more about them on our website here or even better by testing the data ingestion user experience yourself on Elastic Cloud. We are responsible for Elastic Agent as a unified data collector for elastic solutions, Fleet as a central management platform, Integrations platform as a marketplace experience to discover and build third-party integrations to bring data into Elastic Stack, and data transformation and processing tooling of Logstash, ingest pipelines and runtime fields. We are also working to embed the OpenTelemetry Collector within the Elastic Stack to promote data interoperability and enable OTel users to get the benefit of Elastic’s battle-tested visualizations, analytics, and machine learning capabilities.
As an Engineer on the Data Processing team, you will be helping Elastic contribute and build up the capabilities of open source ingestion tools, working with the OpenTelemetry Collector, as well as contributing and supporting use of the Logstash open source streaming ETL (extract-transform-load) tool.
Our team is small and distributed across the globe, and we communicate mostly through Slack, GitHub, email and Zoom.
What You Will Be Doing
- Adding new features, and making contributions to the OpenTelemetry Collector in Golang.
- Designing and implementing new features for Logstash and its plugins in Java and JRuby.
- Maintaining, updating and improving existing code and dependencies while ensuring automated test coverage.
- Engaging with multiple public GitHub repositories and community forums.
- Providing Pull Request reviews and guidance to your peers.
- Caring for the needs of our users and enterprise customers.
- Collaborating with other teams to drive product goals.
- Working together with the support organization to help our customers.
What You Bring Along
- Ability to work in a remote-first, highly distributed environment, with excellent verbal and written communication.
- Strong analytical, problem solving, debugging skills and ability to find efficient solutions.
- Critical thinking, positivity, autonomy and adaptability.
- A track record of developing applications, preferably in Golang, and willingness to learn and work with additional languages, including but not limited to Java and Ruby/JRuby.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ship enterprise-ready software.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- 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
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.
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