At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. The Elastic family unites employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

The Beats platform is the basis for building open source shippers that collect all kinds of operational data, store it in Elasticsearch, and visualize it with Kibana. They collect data from edge servers, and are used to power application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and network monitoring. We currently have five official Beats: Filebeat for gathering logs, Packetbeat for network traffic, Metricbeat for metrics, Winlogbeat for Windows event logs, Heartbeat for uptime monitoring, and Auditbeat for audit data. In addition, the open-source community has created over 40 Beats, collecting data from all sorts of sources.

All current Beats are written in Golang.

As part of the Beats team, you will be responsible for maintaining the official Beats, for creating new ones, as well as for supporting the community around Beats. The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates on daily basis over Github, Zoom, and Slack.

What you'll do

Write open source Golang code for maintaining different Beats.

Dive into new technologies and figure out how to best monitor them.

Define and create new Beats.

Work with our support team to help customers.

Answer community questions.

Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering team and documentation team to execute on product deliverables.

Skills you will bring along

BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline and 5+ years of industry experience.

Experience building systems in Go, C, C++, Java or other systems language

Strong Go language knowledge

Experience with either windows, Linux, k8s, or docker

Open source experience is a plus

Large-scale systems development is a plus

Operational experience with monitoring systems would be very welcome.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging,

and troubleshooting skills.

Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.

Knowledge and experience in Elasticsearch, Beats, Logstash, Distributed Systems is a plus.

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.