Principal Software Engineer II - Observability

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

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. Examples include helping Support with difficult cases or aligning with the teams providing the foundations for developing integrations or consulting the Elastic Stack engineers with 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, somebody who sincerely empathizes with others

What You Bring

Experience leading technical projects in the data