Platform - Engineering Productivity, Senior Engineering Manager

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 precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results 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

We are looking for a senior engineering manager to lead a distributed engineering team in our Engineering productivity team. The Platform Engineering Productivity team owns key developer productivity and CI/CD/Release functions for Elastic engineering. These functions are presented by our emerging internal developer platform and functions include bootstrapping services, developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, product release pipelines, backstage. The team uses a diverse technology stack, including the Argo tool suite (ArgoCD, Argo Events, Argo Workflows), the CueLang language, and various internal Golang projects. 

What You Will Be Doing

• Build a roadmap, disambiguate the work, and drive priorities for your team, based on a mid to long-term vision you’ll help develop for the team
• Manage, mentor, and lead a globally distributed team of 11 engineers, providing frequent feedback and building cohesion in a widely distributed team
• Advocate, unblock, and represent the team within the organization
• Actively participate in the wider Engineering Productivity and Infrastructure management cohorts
• Participate in our Major Incidents on-call rotation as Incident Commander
• Identify and implement processes that improve team productivity and software quality

What You Bring

• Experience leading diverse teams of software engineers as a line manager (people manager)
• Experience leading complex engineering projects that cross engineering teams
• 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
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills
• A compassionate approach to communication, a good sense of humor, and a genuine curiosity about the success and growth of the people you work with

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:$159,800—$252,800 USDThe typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:$191,900—$303,500 USD

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 ba