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. 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: The Chat team, part of Elastic's Agents and Context group, builds the conversational and agentic platform that lets customers chat with and operate on their own data in Elasticsearch. Everything we ship is production software that other Elastic solutions build on.
As Senior Engineering Manager you will lead a distributed team of approximately 12 engineers building this platform. Every engineering team at Elastic is led by a trio of Product Manager, Technical Lead and Engineering Manager. You will directly manage the engineers on the team, act as its primary project manager, and work with the PM and Tech Lead to define and deliver the roadmap. This is a people and delivery leadership role in a fast-moving space: the right person is energized by shaping structure where there is little, and keeps a calm, direct style while priorities shift.
Own delivery of the Chat roadmap: break it into milestones, see around corners on risk, and make sure the team ships predictably.
Run performance management with consistency: promotions, development plans, and managing underperformance through to resolution.
Partner with the Tech Lead and PM to shape roadmap and priorities, and with data science, UX, and the other Agents and Context teams on shared primitives and quality signals.
Build and improve team process (planning, async communication, release and on-call practice) through consensus and clear writing rather than top-down mandate.
A proven track record as an established engineering manager of software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, promotions and performance management.




A track record of delivering large, multi-team software initiatives in a distributed, async-first environment, including creating or improving team processes.
Previous hands-on software engineering experience as a senior contributor, with enough technical depth to understand a TypeScript/Node/React stack, an Elasticsearch-backed system, and how LLM-powered products are built and evaluated. Familiarity with LLM applications, ideally including RAG, agents and tool use, evaluation, and prompt and context engineering.
Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, search and information retrieval, or open source communities is a plus.
Clear, concise long-form writing is how this team works.
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
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
Take ownership of protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data and systems by following applicable privacy and security policies, standards, and procedures. Ensure that all individual contributions follow Elastic's Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). Proactively participate in mandatory role-based training to ensure personal technical execution consistently aligns with the highest standards of data protection, data privacy, and system resilience.
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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