Observability - APM - Sr. Software Engineer (Node.js)

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

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 do we automatically collect data from common data sources, how do we store it efficiently in Elasticsearch, how do we present this information to the user, what actions do we take on the insights from the data? All of these aspects are important in bringing a turnkey solution to the market. As a Node.js Agent Engineer on the APM team, you will be part of a team developing a high quality, open source APM product aimed to help fellow Node.js developers instrument, debug, and monitor Node.js applications. As part of the agent team, you’ll be deeply involved with the entire codebase and take on responsibilities for new features, improving the resource footprint and roadmap planning. You will also be engaging with the open source and the Open Telemetry community. Specifically you will be responsible for developing code that integrates with several Node.js frameworks and libraries.

You will also collaborate closely with the APM Server team when adding new features to the server API and with the UI team to ensure that we deliver the best possible experience for Node.js developers.

As Open Telemetry gains popularity, you will also work with its community to help drive specification development and find integration points with the Elastic APM product.

The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates on a daily basis over Github, Zoom, and Slack. 

What you will be working on

• Join the Node.js APM Agent team
• Improve the Node.js agent for Elastic APM
• Develop new features and improve the current code base
• Explore, evaluate and implement new monitoring approaches
• Build new integrations with Node.js frameworks and libraries
• Ensure high quality and good agent performance
• Work on agent integrations with open standards (e.g. OpenTelemetry)
• Work with broader APM Agents team on new cross-agent features, specs and alignment
• The agent is open-source, so the job includes handling community pull requests, issues and discussion forums requests
• Collaborate with the APM Server and UI teams to ensure the best experience possible for Node.js developers

What you will bring along

• 5+ years of professional backend Node.js experience
• Experience working with Node.js internals
• Knowledge of Node.js web frameworks and ecosystem
• Ability to diagnose and tackle performance issues
• Experience with developing libraries (packages) for Node.js
• Ability to work independently in a globally distributed team

Bonus Skills

• Previous experience developing APM products
• Experience or knowledge in OpenTelemetry
• Experience and/or interest in the wider JavaScript ecosystem

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