What Is The Role:

Elastic's Platform team is responsible for Elastic's core "Stack" across Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. With its scalable and flexible platform, Elastic supports hybrid, public, private, and multi-cloud deployments, making it a trusted partner for over 20,000 customers worldwide. In addition to its core use case of enabling developers to build search functionally into their applications, the Elastic platform powers a complete observability solution (including logs, metrics, trace, profiling, and more), a complete security analytics platform (including SIEM, EDR, and cloud security), and a generative AI development stack (including a vector database, inference services, retrieval services, and more).

We are looking for an experienced technology leader to join the Platform team to help us evolve our core Elasticsearch and ES|QL technologies. These are foundational to the flexibility, performance, and scale of Elastic's platform usage in service of our solutions. If you are a deeply technical, hands-on technical leader; focused on database, data language, or data store problems; and with experience leading a breadth of customer facing efforts in large, complex environments, we want to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Responsible for technical vision and architecture for new initiatives spanning Elasticsearch and ES|QL.
• Leading the delivery of the cross company technical features in partnership with the solution teams.
• Delivering operational SLOs, improving processes, maintainability, testability, re-use, and reliability.
• Collaborating actively with other senior technical leaders to align roadmaps, making appropriate technology choices and trade offs.
• Reviewing and approving implementation designs for core platform features.
• Supporting the contributor community, building engagement, providing best practices and ensuring alignment with architecture.
• Mentoring a dedicated and talented team of Senior and Principal Engineers.
• Being a credible and trusted leader, advocate and influencer for Elastic's DE community.

What You Will Bring:

• Deep acumen building scalable data stores (database, data lake) and how to build access layers on top of that.
• Deep acumen building and operating large scale distributed systems and experience dealing with the scale, reliability, security and performance that arise.
• Experience in a technical leadership role for a large and distributed team e.g. large projects, with more than 50 engineers.
• Experience as a hands-on innovation leader, having delivered successful architecture development and/or evolutions.
• A pragmatic approach, experience balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in language design or compilers for set-based or pipe based declarative programming languages.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Bonus Points:

• Experience using the Elastic Stack and Kibana.
• Experience with a statically typed language (e.g. Go, Java, etc).
• Experience running or significantly contributing to an open source project.
• Experience in Security, Observability or Search domains.