Elasticsearch - Engineering Manager, Elastic

• 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 stakeholders 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

Desirable

• 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 globally-distributed team of experienced engineers focuses on building search functionality in our new piped query language, ES|QL, advancing Lucene and Elasticsearch search relevance techniques to build the best vector database, and other relevance focused search enhancements - to highlighting, language analyzers, and more
• This is an experienced team lead role where you will be working with the team that delivers ES|QL, our new piped query language
• You will participate in roadmap and project planning efforts and will have ownership for delivering it
• You’ll be participating in project management efforts as the teams execute on plans together with the Tech Lead and Product Manager
• We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack
• We care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you're working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible throughout our organization
• Manage, mentor and lead a globally distributed team of Java engineers working on advancing ES|QL and enabling adoption by other teams and our customers
• 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