Director - IT Software Engineering
Elastic · IT
- Location
- United States
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $200K–$316K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
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…
What is the role?
The enterprise software landscape is undergoing a structural shift. AI-assisted development has dropped the cost and time required to build custom internal tools by more than half. Retool's 2026 State of Internal Software report found that 35% of enterprises…
Lead strategic build-vs-buy engineering
Work with IT leadership, Finance, and Engineering to evaluate Elastic's internal SaaS portfolio and identify where custom-built systems — backed by Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic's AI capabilities — deliver better value than continued vendor contracts.…
Lead a high-performing engineering team
Build, mentor, and lead a small, focused team of software engineers executing on internal tool replacements and Elastic-native platforms. Manage delivery roadmaps, unblock your team, and balance engineering rigor with rapid execution speed. Design & build…
Set the engineering standard
Establish and own the architectural standards, design patterns, and engineering practices for all IT platform engineering work. Define how internal systems are built — data models, API design, observability, cost governance, security posture — and serve as…
Collaborate across the company
Partner closely with Elastic's IT infrastructure team, the Security organization (Elastic Security is your SIEM backbone), the Platform Engineering team, and Finance. Engage with tool owners across the company to understand requirements, challenge assumptions…
Dogfood and validate Elastic's own products
Run Elastic's own technology in the most demanding possible context: as the engineering leader responsible for the internal systems that the company depends on every day. Every system your team builds is a reference architecture. Ensure that insights…
Required experience
12+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing or leading direct engineering reports or small engineering teams. Hands-on familiarity and technical capability with Elasticsearch — data modeling, query design, aggregations,…
Valued experience
Experience leading teams that build on the Elastic Stack beyond basic logging — Elastic ML, ELSER semantic search, vector search, Kibana Canvas, Watcher, or Elastic Security. Experience with FinOps practices: cloud cost management, LLM API cost attribution,…
What This Role Is Not
Not a SaaS administrator or vendor manager: This is an engineering execution role, not a role for managing third-party vendor contracts, Salesforce admins, or ServiceNow developers. Not a pure infrastructure or DevOps role: Your team uses cloud…
What This Role Is Not
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…
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…
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