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 stakeholders outside of Engineering
• You know and care about writing performant software and have traced and fixed performance issues yourself
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• 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 with query languages
• Open Source experience
• Prior professional exposure to Elasticsearch
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes

What the job involves

• The Elasticsearch team is in charge of building the core platform that powers search for Elastic’s customers and users for e-commerce, observability, SIEM, and more
• This globally distributed team of experienced engineers focuses on building search functionality in our new piped query language ES|QL, building the most performant metrics and logs solutions, advancing Lucene and Elasticsearch search relevance techniques to build the best vector database, and other relevance-focused search enhancements — from highlighting, language analyzers, and more
• This is an experienced Team Lead role where you will be working with the team that delivers the latest innovations in logs and metrics management
• You will participate in roadmap and project planning efforts and will have ownership for delivering it, working closely with the Tech Lead and Product Manager
• We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable, and intuitive software
• We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements
• We care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you're working on
• Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible throughout our organization
• At Elastic, hierarchy does not determine how decisions get made. We feel that anyone needs to be in the position to comment on anything, regardless of their role within the company
• Manage, mentor, and lead a globally distributed team of Java engineers working on our logs and metrics solutions
• 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)