Senior Engineering Director, Enterprise Search

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.

The Enterprise Search team focuses on a variety of use cases across the broad search market: application search, website search, workplace/organizational search, ecommerce search, knowledge base search, and more. Broadly recognized as a Leader in the search space, Elastic is uniquely positioned to drive the next generation of technologies using a singular Stack, powered by Elasticsearch. That said, opportunities exist far beyond information retrieval: machine learning-powered relevance, simple and intuitive data ingestion with out-of-the-box data integrations with the world’s most widely adopted platforms, operational tooling for deploying search at scale and search experience delivery through modern frameworks and clients are an integral part of Elastic’s success. As Engineering Director for our team, your day-to-day is invested in making critical decisions in the evolution of a big product and platform over multiple years and releases and leading a large team with a coherent vision while making appropriate compromises along the way - quite an exciting journey!

About The Role

We are looking for a Director of Engineering who will take responsibility for people management and software delivery for our Enterprise Search group. You’ll partner closely with a peer Technical Lead and Product Managers. The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates daily over GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. You don’t always need to be the person with the answer but instead should be able to guide discussions to help the team make decisions together.

Some of the things you'll work on

• Lead, retain, develop, and mentor a successful and diverse team of leaders and engineers across the globe
• Scope and lead large multi-functional projects with enormous business impact at Elastic.
• Collaborating with the Cloud, Stack and other Solutions leads to align priorities and roadmaps, and make appropriate choices and compromises.
• Own problems from end to end, handling complexity and engaging directly with a wide range of partners to think through everything from business impact, to reliability and operability, and ease of integration across several business systems.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and Technical Leaders to build roadmaps and lead prioritization; balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast-paced engineering team.
• Support the development and training of your reports through regular performance evaluations
• Regularly present plans and project updates to senior executives in the engineering team
• Foster a culture of mutual respect and collaborative decision-making

What you will bring along

• A track record of running highly effective development teams (30+) across several regions with an ability to lead both Managers and Engineers. You are used to leading performance management (promotions, PIPs, development plans, terminations) and can mentor your managers through difficult situations.
• Experience leading sophisticated engineering projects that cross multiple teams.
• You care deeply about the resiliency of the services and quality of the features your team ships.
• A conscientious approach to communication and a genuine curiosity about the success and growth of your team members.
• Previous experience as a hands-on software engineer and strength in computer science fundamentals to understand the engineering work that is going on in your team.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
• You work with a high level of autonomy.

What would be great

• You have extensive experience in a leadership role with at least one of the pillars of enterprise search.
• Experience using or managing the Elastic Stack.
• Experience developing search products at scale.
• Experience running or significantly contributing to an open-source project.
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