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SeniorFull-timeAWSElasticsearchAIAPI
Salary Range
$99,450 - $134,550 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed team of 12 engineers at Elastic, the Search AI Company. This role involves contributing to roadmap definition and project planning, ensuring the successful delivery of plans, and partnering with Technical Leads and Product Managers to guide execution.
Key Responsibilities
- →Own delivery for the Developer Tools team, ensuring timely, high-quality releases aligned with Elasticsearch schedules and key milestones
- →Partner closely with Product Management and Technical Leadership to define roadmaps, priorities, and execution plans
- →Drive efficient, time-boxed delivery in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment
- →Lead and mentor a globally distributed team of language-specialist engineers
- →Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term maintainability and developer experience
- →Coordinate work across client libraries, integrations, and third-party ecosystems
- →Ensure consistency and quality across languages, frameworks, and platforms
- →Collaborate with Documentation, Support, and internal platform teams to deliver a complete developer experience
- →Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture with strong ownership and accountability
- →Use data, feedback, and industry trends to continuously improve delivery and prioritization
Requirements
- ✓Proven experience (5+ years) leading and scaling engineering teams, including remote management, performance management, and servant leadership
- ✓Strong engineering background with significant experience across static and dynamic programming languages
- ✓A results-oriented mindset with a strong bias to action, enabling teams to move quickly while delivering meaningful impact
- ✓Deep understanding of open-source development, developer communities, and building high-quality developer-facing tools
- ✓Solid knowledge of API design and code generation principles, and a keen interest in the AI ecosystem
- ✓Ability to coordinate and align multiple roadmaps across different language ecosystems and functional areas
- ✓Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for engineers, product managers, leadership, partners, and users
