Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Elastic's Search Inference team as a leader, managing a talented group of engineers focused on bringing high-performance machine learning model inference to search workflows. You will guide the team through product roadmaps, collaborate with cross-functional leads, and ensure a positive customer experience. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in team leadership, remote management, and individual engineering contributions. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with a willingness to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment. Elastic offers a competitive compensation package, including health coverage, flexible work arrangements, generous vacation time, parental leave, and opportunities for volunteer work.

Requirements

• Experience leading a team of people at scale
• Experience with flexible people management, rapid growth, servant leadership, and be comfortable with performance management
• Experience with remote management
• Know how different remote management is from in-office management and how to optimize for a distributed environment
• Experience as an individual contributor in an engineering role
• Shipped quality code into delightful applications, and know how good teams build systems
• Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills
• Work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into correspondence: emails, issues, investigations, documentation, onboarding materials, and so on
• An interest in learning new tools, workflows and philosophies that can help you grow
• Function well in an environment that drives towards change

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a talented team of engineers
• Perform frequent 1on1s, deliver quarterly reviews, lead in “All Hands” discussions, onboard, coach and mentor new and existing team mates
• Collaborate with other Tech, Team, and Product leads over a product roadmap
• Act as an essential and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team
• Help navigate customer experiences with our world-class, empathetic support teams
• Work with all types of people and roles

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave