Elastic - Senior Engineering Manager
Requirements
• A proven track record as an established engineering manager of software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, promotions and performance management. • A track record of delivering large, multi-team software initiatives in a distributed, async-first environment, including creating or improving team processes. • Previous hands-on software engineering experience as a senior contributor, with enough technical depth to understand a TypeScript/Node/React stack, an Elasticsearch-backed system, and how LLM-powered products are built and evaluated. You will not write production code, but you need to spot bottlenecks, risks and one-way-door decisions. • Familiarity with LLM applications, ideally including RAG, agents and tool use, evaluation, and prompt and context engineering. • Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, search and information retrieval, or open source communities is a plus. • Product acumen: comfortable with ambiguity, able to set and communicate priorities, and genuinely interested in what makes an agentic product good for users. • Excellent written and verbal communication. Clear, concise long-form writing is how this team works. • Direct, kind, calm and empathetic. You hold people accountable and navigate hard conversations without drama. • Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People: • As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. • We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. • 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Responsibilities
• Own delivery of the Chat roadmap: break it into milestones, see around corners on risk, and make sure the team ships predictably. • Run hiring end to end for the team: job descriptions, interview loops, sourcing with Recruiting, and onboarding. • Coach and develop engineers at every level, with regular 1:1s, clear expectations and honest feedback. • Run performance management with consistency: promotions, development plans, and managing underperformance through to resolution. • Partner with the Tech Lead and PM to shape roadmap and priorities, and with data science, UX, and the other Agents and Context teams on shared primitives and quality signals. • Build and improve team process (planning, async communication, release and on-call practice) through consensus and clear writing rather than top-down mandate. • Represent the team to leadership and stakeholders.
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