Team Lead for Elastic Agent

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.

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. Diversity drives our vibe. We unite employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

The Ingest team is in charge of developing solutions that focus on ingesting data at scale from all type of services, applications and operating systems. The Ingest team builds and maintains solutions such as our Elastic Agent, Fleet Server, Beats and Logstash solutions. When developing these solutions, we think about the problem end-to-end: how do we automatically collect data from common data sources, how do we store it efficiently in Elasticsearch, how do we present this information to the user, what actions do we take on the insights from the data? All of these aspects are important in bringing a turnkey solution to the market.

As the Sr. Engineering Manager for Elastic Agent in Ingest you will be working in the team focusing on the platform that manages our data shippers used to collect and ingest events. This team manages the coordination of data shippers, their integration with central management capabilities (Fleet) and with Elastic Cloud. The goal of this team is to build high quality, high performance, low overhead and easy to solution to collect data which is the core of Elastic Agent. 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 execute on plans together with the Tech Lead and Product Manager.

The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates on a daily basis over GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

What you will be working on

• Manage, mentor and lead a globally distributed team of go engineers working on Elastic Agent and related components.
• Lead the efficient delivery for time-boxed software releases, ensuring high quality and innovative feature development
• Work with our Product Management team 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 performance evaluations
• Be an awesome person to work with, somebody who sincerely empathizes with others

What you will bring along

• 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 in a fast paced start-up environment
• Ability to work independently

Bonus points for

• 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 creating system level software and back-end services on Unix and Windows.
• Strong preference for Open Source experience
• Exposure to Observability, Performance or Availability tools or services
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes

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 based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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