2 months ago
Spain (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own the production improvement loop for Context Engine, including analyzing extraction automations, retrieval tools, memory, customer feedback, and telemetry.
- Define safe iteration practices for agents and skills, including versioning, staged and shadow evaluation, regression coverage, and rollout guardrails.
- Design telemetry for agent traces, tool calls, and knowledge retrieval and connect it to Elasticsearch, evaluations, dashboards, and feedback loops.
- Partner with data scientists on golden datasets and evaluators covering quality, latency, and cost.
- Review designs and pull requests, mentor engineers in eval-driven development, and write technical proposals that shape the roadmap.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including recent experience shipping and operating AI-driven products on real production traffic.
- Track record of eval-driven product improvement involving agent or LLM traces, user feedback, evaluation design, fixes, and outcome measurement.
- Direct experience building agents with state and memory and safely iterating on prompts, skills, and tool behavior in production.
- Familiarity with MCP, including exposing public MCP servers and tools.
- Experience designing telemetry for AI systems and using it for engineering and product decisions.
- Experience running product experiments end to end, including instrumentation, unattended execution, and result interpretation.
- Experience building products with public APIs and evolving data models.
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or TypeScript, including APIs, stateful workflows, data pipelines, and production services.
- Experience collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and product managers and communicating trade-offs clearly.
- Bonus experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude Agent SDK, agentic retrieval, knowledge representation, or Elasticsearch.
Benefits
- Base salary range of €80.400—€127.200 EUR with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules in a distributed company.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Donation matching up to $2000 or local currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Distributed, async-first work environment.
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About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.