Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elastic is the Search AI Company, providing cloud-based search, security, and observability solutions that help organizations use structured and unstructured data. The Principal, Agentic Engineering Platform will lead the design, development, deployment, and refinement of agentic systems supporting professional services workflows, while setting technical standards, guiding product strategy, and overseeing platform quality and integration.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.
- A 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.
- 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.
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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