[Hiring] Engineering Manager - Search Management - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Role Description

The Elasticsearch team is in charge of building the core platform that powers search for Elastic’s customers and users for e-commerce, observability, SIEM, and more. This is an experienced team lead role where you will be working with the team that delivers search-focused enhancements to the Elasticsearch platform.

• Manage, mentor and lead a globally distributed team of Java 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 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.