Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

About the Role:

The Elastic Data and Compute team is looking to add a Senior Director of Engineering to help lead our company’s ongoing transition to Cloud and SaaS-based products, and accelerate our embrace of Kubernetes in our customers’ datacenters. Our team is a dynamic and rapidly growing group of engineers based all around the world, covering a multitude of countries and time zones. We're solving some very hard problems with innovative tech and we have fun along the way. This is a great opportunity to help lead our Cloud Engineering efforts and make an immediate impact on our strategy and implementation.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Collaborate with other leaders to change our products to be Cloud-first in their design and implementation
• Help define our product path to embrace Kubernetes and accelerate future development of our Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes product
• Change our development processes to embrace the opportunities of Cloud while also ensuring the highest quality standards for our infrastructure software 
• Manage a hiring roadmap to expand our team
• Help the team manage projects and roadmaps against release targets
• Ensure good engineering practices are being followed.
• Own the performance management process for your teams
• Develop and mentor new leaders 
• Set the culture of the team; be a respectful, communicative teammate
• Your heart at the right place, good sense of humor and ability to form connections with the people you work with

What You Will Bring Along:

• 7+ years experience leading teams of software engineers
• You’ve built software for a SaaS service
• Solid experience with 3rd party Cloud hosting services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience building a multi-region cloud infrastructure
• Experience with cloud orchestration
• A love for automated testing
• Kubernetes knowledge
• 5+ years previously as a hands-on software engineer (Java, Scala, Go, C++, Python, or similar programming languages), enabling you to understand the core principles of the engineering work that is going on in your team
• Your heart at the right place, good sense of humor and ability to form connections with the people you work with

Bonus Points:

• Distributed systems design and development
• Experience supporting customer problems and communication
• Speaking/presenting at tech conferences
• Managing on-call schedules (PagerDuty, VictorOps, etc)
• Experience managing distributed teams
• Secure coding practices (static code analysis, security code reviews, etc.)

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. 

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 Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) 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.

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
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• 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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