Platform - Engineering Productivity, Senior Engineering Manager

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.What is The Role:We are looking for a senior engineering manager to lead a distributed engineering team in our Engineering productivity team. The Platform Engineering Productivity team owns key developer productivity and CI/CD/Release functions for Elastic engineering. These functions are presented by our emerging internal developer platform and functions include bootstrapping services, developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, product release pipelines, backstage. The team uses a diverse technology stack, including the Argo tool suite (ArgoCD, Argo Events, Argo Workflows), the CueLang language, and various internal Golang projects.What You Will Be Doing:Build a roadmap, disambiguate the work, and drive priorities for your team, based on a mid to long-term vision you'll help develop for the teamManage, mentor, and lead a globally distributed team of 11 engineers, providing frequent feedback and building cohesion in a widely distributed teamAdvocate, unblock, and represent the team within the organizationActively participate in the wider Engineering Productivity and Infrastructure management cohortsParticipate in our Major Incidents on-call rotation as Incident CommanderIdentify and implement processes that improve team productivity and software qualityWhat You Bring:Experience leading diverse teams of software engineers as a line manager (people manager)Experience leading complex engineering projects that cross engineering teamsExperience as a hands-on software engineer and strength in computer science fundamentals to understand the engineering work that is going on in your teamStrong written and spoken English communication skillsA compassionate approach to communication, a good sense of humor, and a genuine curiosity about the success and growth of the people you work withAdditional 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 salaryHealth coverage for you and your family in many locationsAbility to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many rolesGenerous number of vacation days each yearIncrease your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and serviceUp to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you loveEmbracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leaveDifferent 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 origi