The opportunity
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the…
What you'll do
Develop and execute a long-term engineering strategy for Elasticsearch's: distributed systems, aligning technical priorities with product direction and business objectives.
Drive improvements in performance, scalability, reliability and cost: efficiency, including foundational capabilities supporting Serverless Elasticsearch.
Lead the evolution of Elasticsearch's core distributed architecture,: including cluster coordination, data allocation, indexing, replication and recovery.
Provide technical leadership and oversight for complex engineering: initiatives and programs, helping engineering managers and technical leaders navigate architectural decisions and competing priorities.
Own engineering outcomes across your organisation, balancing technical: complexity, customer impact, reliability, operational requirements and long-term maintainability.
Lead, mentor, hire and develop engineering managers and senior technical: leaders, establishing high performance standards and building a strong pipeline of future leaders, fostering an inclusive culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
What they're looking for
- Take ownership of organisational planning, staffing and resource allocation,: ensuring teams have the capabilities and support needed to deliver on strategic priorities.
- Partner with Product Management, engineering leaders and other teams across: Elastic to define priorities and deliver complex initiatives spanning multiple engineering organisations.
- Act as a senior escalation point for critical technical and operational: challenges, working closely with engineering, Support and SRE teams to drive effective resolution.
- Communicate engineering strategy, organisational priorities and progress to: senior executives, influencing decisions that have a significant impact on Elastic and its customers.
