Engineering Manager

Who you are

• Experience leading distributed teams of software engineers
• Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to drive conversations across multiple teams to a conclusion
• Previous experience working with collaborators outside of Engineering
• You know and care about writing performant software and have traced and fixed performance issues yourself
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently
• Significant experience as a hands-on software engineer so you understand the core principles of the engineering work that is going on in your team
• Experience working in Lucene or Solr
• Open Source experience
• Prior professional exposure to Elasticsearch
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes

What the job involves

• This is an experienced team lead role where you will be working with the team that delivers these search-focused enhancements to the Elasticsearch platform
• The goal of this team is to build a high quality, fast, and relevant foundation for search within Elasticsearch
• You will participate in roadmap and project planning efforts and will have ownership for delivering it
• You’ll be participating in project management efforts as the teams complete plans together with the Tech Lead and Product Manager
• Manage, mentor and lead a globally distributed team of Java engineers working on search functionality within Elasticsearch
• Lead the efficient delivery of search enhancements with regular releases of Elasticsearch, ensuring high quality and innovative feature development
• Work with our product managers to define requirements
• Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and consensus-based decision-making
• Stay true to the principles of software development as adopted by our team
• Build roadmaps and lead prioritization; balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast-paced engineering team
• Identify resource requirements and help drive recruitment of high quality colleagues
• Support the development and training of direct reports through regular 1:1s and career conversations
• Be a great person to work with, somebody who sincerely empathizes with others

Benefits

• Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
• Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
• Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
• Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
• Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
• Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).