Platform - Senior Product Manager (Distributed & Serverless)

Elastic; Canada; Remote; CAD 128,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead initiatives in Elasticsearch's Distributed Systems and Serverless capabilities. This role focuses on enhancing scalability, performance, and resilience across various deployment models. The ideal candidate will collaborate with engineers and designers, engage with customers to understand challenges, and analyze data to drive improvements. If you're passionate about distributed systems and eager to make a significant impact in a cutting-edge environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a diverse team that values your contributions and fosters a culture of inclusivity.

Benefits

Health coverage for you and your family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Financial donation matching

Volunteer project hours

16 weeks of parental leave

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product management or technical background in software/SaaS.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Drive product initiatives to improve Elasticsearch's scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with teams to define requirements and ensure successful execution.

Skills

Product Management

Distributed Systems

Cloud-based Architectures

API Design

Analytical Skills

Problem-solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Job description

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 together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. 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:

We are looking for a technical Senior Product Manager to join our team and help shape the future of Elasticsearch’s Distributed Systems and Serverless capabilities. If you’re excited about solving complex challenges in scalability, performance, and resilience, and love working with cutting-edge distributed systems, this could be the perfect role for you!

Elasticsearch is at the heart of everything we do at Elastic. It powers a huge range of use cases, from Enterprise Search and Observability to Security and large-scale analytics. It even helps analyze telemetry data from NASA’s rovers on Mars! As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll work closely with our talented Distributed Systems engineering team to improve how Elasticsearch handles node communication, data indexing, allocation, and replication. You’ll also help ensure Elasticsearch runs smoothly across Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, and On-Prem environments.

We’re looking for someone who has experience in software or SaaS companies and has worked on infrastructure, platform, or developer-focused products. You don’t need to define the long-term vision, but you should be able to show how you’ve contributed to delivering real impact and outcomes as part of a team. You’ll work side by side with engineers, designers, and product peers to execute on roadmap initiatives, refine requirements, and make Elasticsearch even better.

If you’re passionate about distributed systems, love collaborating with engineers, and want to work on a product that makes a real difference, we’d love to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing:

• Driving impactful product initiatives by working closely with the Distributed Systems engineering team to improve how Elasticsearch handles scalability, performance, and resilience across all deployment models.
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and other product managers to define requirements, refine priorities, and ensure successful execution of roadmap initiatives.
• Engaging with customers and internal teams to understand real-world challenges, gather feedback, and ensure that Elasticsearch meets the needs of developers, platform teams, and enterprises.
• Measuring success and driving continuous improvements by tracking key performance indicators, analyzing usage data, and identifying opportunities to enhance Elasticsearch’s reliability and efficiency.
• Conducting competitive analysis to understand market trends, identify differentiators, and ensure Elasticsearch remains a leader in the distributed systems and database space.

What You Bring:

• 4+ years of experience in product management within a software or SaaS company, or a technical background delivering complex systems in other industries.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems, including how data is indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based and serverless architectures. Direct experience with serverless environments is a plus.
• Experience defining requirements and collaborating on the design of APIs, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to balance technical trade-offs and business priorities when making product decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, designers, and other stakeholders across a globally distributed team.
• A collaborative and curious mindset, with a willingness to learn, adapt, and contribute to a fast-moving, highly technical product space.

Bonus points:

• A technical background, such as prior experience as a software engineer, SRE, or architect, who has transitioned into product management.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, databases, or cloud infrastructure, with a strong understanding of their trade-offs and challenges.
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, or Beats.
• Experience with other database, search, or analytical SaaS and serverless products, such as OpenSearch, Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB, or Kafka.
• Understanding of the challenges of operating large-scale distributed systems, such as networking, consistency models, replication strategies, and failure handling.
• Experience working closely with developers as well as field teams, including solutions architects, customer success engineers, sales engineers, and support teams, to understand customer challenges and drive adoption.
• Passion for working in an open-source environment, engaging with community contributors, and helping build products that developers love.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $128,300—$203,000 CAD

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 you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• 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
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. 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.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.