Golang Developer

Elastic

(Mountain View, California)
Full Time Fully Remote
Job Posting Details
About Elastic

Elastic is the world's leading software provider for making structured and unstructured data usable in real time for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash open source projects, Elastic's global community has more than 80,000 members across 45 countries, and since its initial release. Elastic's products have achieved more than 100 million cumulative downloads.

Summary

We are currently looking to add a talented Golang Developer to our Beats team. 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, and Heartbeat for uptime monitoring. 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. The Beats team is 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 from USA and Europe to Asia, and collaborates on daily basis over Github, Zoom, and Slack.

Responsibilities
  • 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.
Ideal Candidate
  • BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline and 3+ years of industry experience.
  • Experience creating system level software on Unix and/or Windows platforms. Windows programming experience is a plus.
  • Experience in Golang programming is a big plus, but not strictly required.
  • Strong experience with C/C++ or other low level programming languages is a plus.
  • Operational experience with monitoring systems is a plus.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a team player with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
  • Knowledge and experience in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Distributed Systems is a plus.
Compensation and Working Conditions
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Mountain View, California
Skills Desired
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  • C++
  • Debugging
  • Troubleshooting
  • Unix
  • Windows
  • ElasticSearch
  • Golang
  • Computer Science
  • Distributed Systems
  • Logstash
  • C Programming Language

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