Principal Product Manager, Telemetry Collection - Observability
About The Position
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. 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. 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!
Requirements
- At minimum five years in a Product Management role with a specific focus on enterprise infrastructure observability, telemetry collection, or agent frameworks.
- Deep technical familiarity with collectors, log shippers, and agent ecosystems such as the OpenTelemetry Collector, Elastic Agent, Filebeat/Beats, and Logstash.
- Proven track record in defining requirements for remote agent management, fleet control planes, or distributed edge collection systems.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and Helm Charts, alongside a solid understanding of cloud-native orchestration and release management.
- Expertise in OpenTelemetry standards, receivers/exporters, and OpenTelemetry Collector architectures.
- 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).
Nice To Haves
- Previous work experience on the front lines of IT Ops, DevOps, or SRE, or a customer-facing solution architect / consultant background is ideal.
Responsibilities
- Define the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and execution roadmap for the Elastic Agent framework, Fleet Server/Service, and telemetry collectors.
- Define and track KPIs focused on agent deployment success, pipeline efficiency, and the adoption of our OTel distributions.
- 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.
- Drive remote management capabilities for Elastic Agent, Fleet Server, and collector infrastructure to ensure smooth deployment, configuration, and control at scale.
- 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.
- 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.
- Manage Filebeat (as an Elastic Agent–managed OTel receiver, or standalone binary) and oversee the maintenance of the Beats repository.
- Lead product initiatives for Logstash — continuing to provide the best experience for all of our many Logstash users through improved supportability, performance and customer requested enhancements.
- Work closely with engineering, UX, and product marketing to deliver compelling central management and collector experiences.
- Act as a key spokesperson for Elastic’s agent framework, collector ecosystem, and collection capabilities at internal and external events.
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
- 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
- company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
- a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being
- stock program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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