Senior Engineering Manager, Elastic
Developer Tools, Search
Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
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Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience (5+ years) leading and scaling engineering teams, including remote management, performance management, and servant leadership
- Strong engineering background with significant experience across static and dynamic programming languages
- A results-oriented mindset with a strong bias to action, enabling teams to move quickly while delivering meaningful impact
- Deep understanding of open-source development, developer communities, and building high-quality developer-facing tools
- Solid knowledge of API design and code generation principles, and a keen interest in the AI ecosystem
- Ability to coordinate and align multiple roadmaps across different language ecosystems and functional areas
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for engineers, product managers, leadership, partners, and users
What the job involves
- The Developer Tools Team builds the client libraries and ecosystem integrations that enable developers to easily and effectively build on Elastic products
- The team maintains Elasticsearch language clients across eight programming languages and develops integrations with third-party frameworks and platforms, particularly within the AI ecosystem
- Our focus is on delivering tools and APIs that “just work,” with a strong emphasis on quality, consistency, and developer experience
- We are a collaborative, open-source–driven team that values clear communication, solid technical judgment, and thoughtful execution
- We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this globally distributed team of 12 engineers
- In this role, you will contribute to roadmap definition and project planning and own the successful delivery of those plans
- You will partner closely with the Technical Leads and Product Manager to guide execution, coordinate priorities, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes
- Own delivery for the Developer Tools team, ensuring timely, high-quality releases aligned with Elasticsearch schedules and key milestones
- Partner closely with Product Management and Technical Leadership to define roadmaps, priorities, and execution plans
- Drive efficient, time-boxed delivery in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment
- Lead and mentor a globally distributed team of language-specialist engineers
- Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term maintainability and developer experience
- Coordinate work across client libraries, integrations, and third-party ecosystems
- Ensure consistency and quality across languages, frameworks, and platforms
- Collaborate with Documentation, Support, and internal platform teams to deliver a complete developer experience
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture with strong ownership and accountability
- Use data, feedback, and industry trends to continuously improve delivery and prioritization
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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