Platform - Principal Product Manager (Distributed & Serverless)

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

We are looking for an experienced, technical Product Manager to drive the roadmap for the Distributed Systems and Serverless for Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch, the search engine and datastore at the heart of Elastic's offerings, powers use cases from Enterprise Search, to Observability, to Security, and even analysis of telemetry data from NASA's rovers on Mars. We are looking for a person who has helped define the vision and made critical decisions in the evolution of a platform over multiple years, and ideally someone with experience in large-scale distributed systems engineering, serverless & stateless SaaS solutions and data lifecycle management.

 

What you will be doing:

• Define and track the priorities and requirements for the Data Distributed area of Elasticsearch, including Scale-out/in, Stateless and Serverless
• Work closely with the Elasticsearch Team and Tech Leads to define and maintain a shared vision for the future of Elasticsearch.
• Work with Elastic's downstream product and engineering teams to discover, align, and prioritize their needs: understanding their timing requirements and helping think through phased approaches.
• Work with our Sales & Marketing teams on go-to-market, messaging, competitive analysis, and enablement.
• Capture market competitive and trend data, customer and community feedback, and usage information to develop product insights.

 

What you bring along:

• Strong experience (ideally 8+ years) in product management.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data systems for streaming and processing data, data lakes for storage, Databases, or Data as Service products.
• Experience defining requirements for and contributing to the design of distributed systems
• Understanding of the trade-offs inherent in Distributed Systems.
• Experience with one or more of the common use cases for the Elastic Stack, such as application search, logging, metrics, APM, security analytics, GIS, etc.
• Practical experience of SaaS delivery models
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Curiosity and an open mind.
• Humble attitude — we are here for the success of the team and the company.
• Empathy, transparency, and a good sense of humor.

 

Bonus Points:

• Direct experience with the Elastic Stack.
• Comfortable working in a very cross-functional role, with a highly distributed, global team.
• Experience with open-source software and/or commercial open source companies.
• Experience with products offered both via SaaS and self-managed.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity