Senior Engineering Manager

Who you are

• Experience managing a team of people at scale. You will have experience with flexible people management, rapid growth, servant leadership, and become comfortable with performance management
• Experience with remote management. You will know how different remote management is from in-office management and how to optimize for a distributed environment
• Experience as an individual contributor in an engineering role. You have shipped quality code into delightful applications, and know how good teams build systems
• Bonus: Experience in building and shipping AI-based products that operate reliably at enterprise scale
• Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into correspondence: emails, issues, investigations, documentation, onboarding materials, and so on
• A curiosity about learning new tools, workflows and philosophies that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change. This role has tremendous opportunities for growth!

What the job involves

• As an Engineering Manager for a high-impact product, you'll shape the future of AI agent development at Elastic, tackling exciting challenges in agentic workflows, hybrid search, personalization, and scaling context-driven intelligence for the world's largest organizations—joining a team at the forefront of solving real-world enterprise AI problems with innovative, open, and performant technology
• You'll drive technical vision and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder platform, focusing on agentic workflows, hybrid search, personalization, and scaling context-driven intelligence
• You will lead and manage a dedicated team of engineers. You’ll perform frequent 1on1s, deliver quarterly reviews, lead in “All Hands” discussions, onboard, coach and mentor new and existing team mates
• You will collaborate with other Tech, Team, and Product leads over a product roadmap. You’ll act as a crucial and communicative part of an engaged and upbeat team
• You will help navigate customer experiences with our extraordinary, empathetic support teams. You’ll work with all types of people and roles

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).