OverviewLead a distributed team of ~12 engineers in the Chat platform within Elastic's Agents and Context group.

You will own the Chat roadmap delivery, align with PM and Tech Lead, and ensure timely, high-quality releases.

You'll hire, coach, and manage performance while shaping team processes for an async-first, diverse organization.

This role combines people leadership with hands-on product delivery in a fast-moving AI and search-focused environment.

You'll work to make conversational AI reliable, grounded, and scalable for customers at scale.

Compensaciones / Beneficioscompetitive pay health coverage for you and family versátil locations and schedules generous vacation days donation matching up to $****

volunteer hours (up to 40 hours/year)

ResponsabilidadesOwn delivery of the Chat roadmap and milestones; assess risks and ensure predictable shipping

Run end-to-end hiring: job descriptions, interviews, sourcing, onboarding

Coach and develop engineers with 1:1s, clear expectations, feedback

Conduct performance management: promotions, development plans, addressing underperformance

Collaborate with Tech Lead, PM, data science, UX,



and other teams on priorities and quality signals

Improve team processes (planning, async communication, release, on-call) via consensus and clear writing

Represent the team to leadership and stakeholders

Requisitos principalesProven track record as an engineering manager for software teams (hiring, coaching, promotions, performance management)

Experience delivering large multi-team initiatives in a distributed, async-first environment

Hands-on software engineering experience as a senior contributor with TS/Node/React stack and Elasticsearch-backed systems

Familiarity with LLM applications (RAG, agents, tool use, evaluation, prompt/context engineering)

Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, search and information retrieval (plus)

Product sense and ability to set and communicate priorities in ambiguous environments

Excellent written and verbal communication; concise long-form writing; empathetic, calm leadership leadership coaching clear communication

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📌 Senior Engineering Manager - Agents And Context - Platform - Elastic (Valladolid)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Valladolid