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Posted 4 days agoPrincipal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability
at Elastic
GreeceOn-site
Responsibilities
- Remote Management & Control: Drive remote management capabilities for Elastic Agent, Fleet Server, and collector infrastructure to ensure smooth deployment, configuration, and control at scale.
- Log Shipping Infrastructure: Manage Filebeat (as an Elastic Agent–managed OTel receiver, or standalone binary) and oversee the maintenance of the Beats repository.
Requirements
- 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
- experience for all of our many Logstash users through improved supportability, performance and customer requested enhancements.
- Deep technical familiarity with collectors, log shippers, and agent ecosystems such as the OpenTelemetry Collector, Elastic Agent, Filebeat/Beats, and Logstash.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts, alongside a solid understanding of cloud-native orchestration and release management. Previous work
- experience on the front lines of IT Ops, DevOps, or SRE, or a customer-facing solution architect / consultant background is ideal.
- Experience working closely with open-source communities and navigating the balance between upstream contributions and enterprise product requirements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical architectures into clear business goals.
- Familiarity with modern AI productivity tools and an understanding of emerging AI technology stacks and telemetry requirements.
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed team throughout the world.
- Strong familiarity with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats).
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role.
Benefits
- You will own the vision for Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, and the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) alongside classic standalone log shippers like Filebeat and the Beats ecosystem and Logstash.
- Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and execution roadmap for the Elastic Agent framework, Fleet Server/Service, and telemetry collectors.
- Kubernetes Management & Releases: Drive the vision and release strategy for our cloud-native deployments, specifically focusing on Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts to ensure seamless provisioning and lifecycle management of our agent framework.
- Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
- At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration.
- Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the
- The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.
- The typical starting salary range for this role is: €73.300 — €115.900 EUR Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Generous number of vacation days each year Increase
- your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
- Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)
Contact
- To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co . We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.
Additional details
- The Observability team is in charge of developing solutions that focus on application developers and engineers that run infrastructure and services supporting these applications.
- Elasticsearch is an efficient datastore for logs, metrics, and application traces, supporting the three pillars of observability.
- The Observability team builds and maintains solutions that make getting insights from this data turnkey and efficient, such as our APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Logs, and Uptime solutions.
- When developing these solutions, we think about the problem end-to-end: how we manage agents and collectors, how we collect data efficiently, how we store it in Elasticsearch, and how we deliver seamless management capabilities across remote architectures.
- As a Principal Product Manager for Telemetry collection within the Observability team, you will be responsible for driving the strategy and execution for our edge telemetry collectors and remote management capabilities.
- If you are passionate about building scalable collector management systems and empowering users to easily manage enterprise-grade telemetry pipelines, this job is for you!
- Data-Driven Decisions: Define and track KPIs focused on agent deployment success, pipeline efficiency, and the adoption of our OTel distributions.
- Agent Architecture & Distribution: Oversee the packaging, testing, and distribution of the Elastic Agent, which is Elastic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT) as well as standalone, purpose-specific Elastic Agent-based distributions .
- OpenTelemetry: Advance OTel as a primary data shipper, guiding the ongoing development of receivers and exporters across Elastic Agent (EDOT) and the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector project to meet enterprise requirements.
- Logstash Enhancement: Lead product initiatives for Logstash — continuing to provide the best