Principal Solutions Architect - Observability

Elastic is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect - Observability to shape how customers leverage Elastic's Observability solutions to achieve their business goals. The role involves acting as a trusted advisor and technical authority, working closely with sales teams, customers, and partners to design and implement innovative observability solutions built on Elastic and OpenTelemetry standards.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in OpenTelemetry, including significant contributions to its development or ecosystem.
• Experience building PoCs, inclusive of the technical skills required to develop exemplary custom services and stage typical supporting infrastructure, like Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres across both self-managed and hosted environments.
• An ideal candidate will have some practitioner experience using observability products as a SRE or developer.
• Experience designing and presenting technical solutions related to Observability, OpenTelemetry, or AI technologies in a pre-sales or consulting capacity.
• A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software, and technologies.
• A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner.
• A history of successful customer relations where you developed an understanding of what made a difference, and devised architectures that helped meet a goal, tackle a problem, or outpace competitors.
• An ability to influence. Have you more than once convinced a team you worked for, of an idea, technology, or architectural pattern?
• The ability to inspire groups, both large and small.
• A willingness to travel 30% within the region, as well as occasionally internationally.

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