Elastic · 13 hours ago
Control Plane - Serverless Core - Software Engineering Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$133K/yr - $211K/yr
2+ years expElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. They are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the Serverless Control Plane, focusing on people management, strategy execution, and technical leadership.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
People & Talent Management: We believe in leading and empowering our people. You will mentor a team of versatile software engineers, encouraging a culture that is committed to performance, psychological safety, and continuous learning! You will be responsible for the entire employee lifecycle, from your first hire to helping your team members reach their next promotion
Strategy & Execution: How do we turn big ideas into reality? You’ll work with our Product and Control Plane Leadership teams to navigate planning cycles, working together to translate business requirements into clear engineering achievements. You’ll act as a bridge, ensuring our APIs and services meet the needs of our internal customers while we maintain the integrity of the platform
Technical & Operational Leadership: We take full accountability for our services. You’ll partner with your Technical Lead to facilitate technical discussions, navigate trade-offs, and drive the team to build balanced, high-quality services. You will also be part of our Incident Commander (IC) on-call rotation, providing leadership during critical service disruptions to keep our platform production-ready
Qualification
Required
2+ years of experience leading people, with a focus on mentoring and talent development
A background in Software Engineering, SRE, or DevOps that allows you to read code and guide senior engineers through problems
Familiarity with Golang patterns and software engineering best practices
Experience helping a team plan its roadmap and forecast capacity in a fast-paced environment
Experience leading remote, asynchronous teams across different time zones and countries
A knack for explaining technical strategy and progress to all kinds of interested parties, whether they are technical or not
Preferred
Prior experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, or deployment models like ECK and ECE
Practical experience with Kubernetes Operators, CRDs, or GitOps (Argo CD) as well as experience with one of the main public CSPs (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Proficiency in building GitHub Actions, Dashboards, and/or custom tools to streamline project management and reporting
Previous success leading teams that support high-scale, multi-tenant global platforms
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
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-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
1001-5000 employees
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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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