Elastic
Principal, Agentic Engineering Platform
$160K–$304K
United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; no alternative stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- For people located in or nationals of listed sanctioned countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of employment.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of an agentic engineering platform that automates complex workflows for Elastic’s professional services teams, including migration projects.
What you'll do
- Set platform technical vision and architecture, and manage the roadmap and release lifecycle.
- Build and improve multi-step agent workflows, evaluations, monitoring, and human review controls.
- Integrate platform outputs into services delivery and collaborate with engineering and delivery stakeholders.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, software engineering, or technical professional services roles.
- Production deployment experience with agentic or LLM-powered applications, including deployment and optimization.
- Practical experience with LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, tool integration, and RAG architectures; experience building evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for probabilistic models.
- Strong Python engineering skills; focus on security best practices and ability to communicate technical trade-offs and risks.
Nice to have
- Domain experience in SIEM, observability, or data migration; familiarity with Elastic migration workflows or Elasticsearch as an agentic retrieval/search layer.
- Understanding of air-gapped environments and public-sector compliance, or experience developing engineering enablement or training programs.
Pay
$159,800 — $252,800 USD (base salary); $191,900 — $303,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Claude Code, Codex, LLM orchestration, RAG, Elasticsearch, Kibana Security, SPL
AI focus
Build, deploy, evaluate, monitor, and refine agentic systems and LLM-powered workflows for professional services, including migration automation.
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