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 more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data—securing and protecting private information more effectively—Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
The Control Plane Serverless Team builds and maintains the platform that allows Elastic’s products and customers to enjoy a flawless experience. We focus on abstracting away the complexities of the underlying environment so our users can focus on what matters most to them. Our team is responsible for the critical services and domains—like Kubernetes controllers and internal APIs—that orchestrate global deployments. We are builders at heart!
Are you a leader who is a manager first, but still loves to dive into the technical details of distributed systems? We seek an Engineering Manager to guide a team that is responsible for a key portion of our Serverless Control Plane. We need someone who can truly understand the "how" and "why" of the work to ensure our services remain robust as we scale together.
We are a distributed team, with about half of us based in make sure we have enough time to collaborate in real-time, we are looking for teammates in EMEA or the Americas. If you’re in the Americas, we have a preference for the Eastern Timezone (EST) so we can maintain that "golden window" of collaboration with our European colleagues.
What You Will Be Doing
People & Talent Management: Lead and empower a team of versatile software engineers, encouraging a culture committed to performance, psychological safety, and continuous learning! Mentor the entire employee lifecycle, from your first hire to helping team members reach the next promotion.
Strategy & Execution: Work with our Product and Control Plane Leadership teams to navigate planning cycles, translate business requirements into clear engineering achievements, and ensure APIs and services meet the needs of our internal customers while maintaining platform integrity.
Technical & Operational Leadership: Partner with your Technical Lead to facilitate technical discussions, navigate trade-offs, and drive the team to build balanced, high‑quality services. Serve as Incident Commander on‑call rotation, providing leadership during critical service disruptions to keep our platform production‑ready.
What You Bring
Management Experience: 2+ years leading people, focusing on mentoring and talent development.
Technical Foundation: Background in Software Engineering, SRE, or DevOps, able to read code and guide senior engineers.
Golang Proficiency: Familiarity with Golang patterns and best practices, as our stack is built on it.
Strategic Approach: Experience planning roadmaps and forecasting capacity in a fast‑paced environment.
Distributed Leadership: Experience leading remote, asynchronous teams across time zones and countries.Communication: Ability to explain technical strategy and progress to audiences of varying technical depth.
Bonus Points
Elastic Stack Expertise: Prior experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, or deployment models like ECK and ECE.
Cloud‑Native Depth: Practical experience with Kubernetes Operators, CRDs, or GitOps (Argo CD) and one of the main public CSPs (GCP, AWS, Azure).
Operational Automation: Proficiency building GitHub Actions, dashboards, and custom tools to streamline project management and reporting.
SaaS at Scale: Past success leading teams that support high‑scale, multi‑tenant global platforms.
Additional Information – We Take Care of Our People
We believe in parity of benefits across regions. Our benefits include competitive pay, health coverage for you and your family, flexible calendar options, generous vacation days, matching up to $2,000 for charitable donations, up to 40 volunteer hours per year, and a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
Legal and Equality Statements
Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance or regulation.
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