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 Originally posted on Himalayas