Principal, Agentic Engineering Platform
Описание
AI is fundamentally transforming how professional services teams build and deliver value. At Elastic, we are focused on creating production-grade services platforms and software engineering practices that work reliably in real-world environments. The agentic engineering platform is a suite of tools designed to automate complex, multi-step delivery workflows across our global services organization. We are looking for a Principal, Agentic Engineering Platform to lead this initiative end-to-end. In this role, you will design, ship, and refine agentic systems that directly support our services team. You will set technical standards, guide product strategy, and manage the complete life cycle: building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and iterating. While automated agents expand what you can deliver, you are the architect and decision-maker responsible for the final outcome. A key early priority is DIMA, Elastic's migration automation platform for SIEM and observability projects. Experience in security, SIEM, or observability will be highly valuable.
Responsibilities
- Establish the technical vision and architectural standards for services agentic systems, ensuring automated tools enhance rather than replace engineering judgment.
- Manage the platform roadmap and release schedule, overseeing stages from discovery and classification to quality assurance and rollout.
- Develop multi-step workflows using LLM orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and structured output processing.
- Guide AI-assisted development workflows with tools like Claude Code and Codex, emphasizing issue-focused tasks, automated testing, and security reviews.
- Design robust system architecture that addresses operational boundaries, potential failure modes, human approval steps, and long-term maintainability.
- Create and maintain evaluation frameworks to assess agent performance across accuracy, reliability, response time, cost, and stability.
- Implement tracing across tool calls, context assembly, and decision logic to troubleshoot and resolve production issues quickly.
- Define quality benchmarks for professional services workflows and build system metrics to validate them.
- Incorporate human review checkpoints wherever model output affects client deliverables or operational risk.
- Ensure platform outputs generate clear evidence suitable for client deliverables, including proposals, statements of work, and project estimates.
- Act as the key technical link between services platform engineering and delivery teams, working closely with stakeholders to seamlessly integrate agentic workflows into existing processes.
- Partner with Services Practice Leads and the Global Specialist to turn operational strategies into practical tools.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, software engineering, or technical professional services roles.
- Proven track record of deploying agentic or LLM-powered applications to production, with experience navigating the full deployment and optimization life cycle.
- Practical experience with LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, tool integration, and RAG architectures.
- Experience building evaluation systems, test suites, and monitoring tools for probabilistic models.
- Familiarity with developer tooling (such as Claude Code or Codex) and agent framework patterns.
- Strong Python engineering skills, with the ability to review backend services and data structures for production readiness.
- Focus on security best practices, including access control, least privilege, air-gapped setups, and safe handling of sensitive customer data.
- Strong communication skills, capable of explaining technical trade-offs and deployment risks to non-technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel up to 15% as needed.
Nice to have
- Domain experience in SIEM, observability, or data migration (e.g., detections, ECS, Kibana Security, SPL).
- Familiarity with Elastic workflows, such as Kibana SIEM migrations, DIMA, or related migration tooling.
- Experience using Elasticsearch as a retrieval or search layer within agentic systems.
- Understanding of air-gapped environments and public-sector compliance requirements.
- Background in developing technical enablement or training programs for engineering teams.
- Relevant certifications across AI/ML, cloud platforms, or security technologies.
We offer
- Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.
- This role does not have a variable compensation component.
- The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $159,800-$252,800 USD.
- In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range of $191,900-$303,500 USD may apply.
- An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
- This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.
- Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- 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.