Elastic · 15 hours ago
Senior Engineering Manager - Search Scaling - Elasticsearch
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. The role involves managing a globally distributed team of engineers focused on delivering search enhancements and ensuring a high-quality search experience within the Elasticsearch platform.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Manage, mentor and lead a globally distributed team of go engineers working on search functionality within Elasticsearch
Lead the efficient delivery of search enhancements with regular releases of Elasticsearch, ensuring high quality and innovative feature development
Work with our product managers to define requirements
Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and consensus based decision-making
Stay true to the principles of software development as adopted by our team
Build roadmaps and lead prioritization; balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast-paced engineering team
Identify resource requirements and help drive recruitment of high quality colleagues
Support the development and training of direct reports through regular 1:1s and career conversations
Be a great person to work with, somebody who sincerely empathizes with others
Qualification
Required
Experience leading distributed teams of software engineers
Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to drive conversations across multiple teams to a conclusion
Previous experience working with collaborators outside of Engineering
You know and care about writing performant software and have traced and fixed performance issues yourself
Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Ability to work independently
Preferred
Significant experience as a hands-on software engineer so you understand the core principles of the engineering work that is going on in your team
Experience working in Lucene or Solr
Open Source experience
Prior professional exposure to Elasticsearch
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
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