[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer II - Observability @Elastic

Role Description

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Observability Experience Team as one of the Tech Leads. As part of this team you will work at the intersection of big data engineering, backend architecture, and experiences (including graphical UX, UX embedded in chat interfaces and AI agent oriented interfaces) to help users obtain the best insights from their Observability signals, especially logs, metrics and traces.

What You Will Be Doing

• Collaborate with product management, product design and multiple teams across Elastic in defining and evolving the end-to-end experiences for Observability.
• Be a contact point for other teams within Elastic, helping Support with difficult cases or aligning with teams providing foundations for developing integrations.
• Consult with Elastic Stack engineers on designing new features.
• Be hands-on with the codebase; review work done in the team and provide constructive feedback to engineers.
• Help the team define coding practices and standards.
• Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and consensus-based decision-making.
• Stay true to the principles of software development as adopted by our team.
• Be an awesome person to work with, sincerely empathizing with others.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical projects in the data and enterprise architecture areas.
• Proven knowledge in building and running sophisticated technical infrastructures and engineering sound software systems.
• Hands-on experience using and developing Observability tools, preferably in the Logs space.
• Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing technical and professional guidance.
• Experience defining a long-term technical vision for a data-intensive application, working across teams and organizations to collaboratively build the technical roadmap.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy, tackling projects from beginning to end.
• Ability to use AI coding agents in the full software development workflow.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points

• Experience as a user of the Elastic Stack.
• Experience in SRE roles.

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.
• 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.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.