Lead Engineering Manager - AI Agents & Context Platform

Elastic; Ireland; Remote; EUR 105,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Family health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer and donation matching

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of approximately 12 engineers within the Chat platform of Agents and Context. You will manage, deliver roadmaps, and partner with PMs and Tech Leads to shape priorities.

The role emphasizes people leadership, async processes, and high‑caliber engineering across global teams. You will run hiring end to end, coach engineers, and ensure performance discipline while aligning with product goals and customer value.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering manager of software teams with hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Track record delivering large, multi‑team software initiatives in a distributed, async‑first environment.
• Hands‑on software engineering experience at a senior level with TS/Node/React stack awareness.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the Chat roadmap: break into milestones and ensure predictable shipping.
• Run end‑to‑end hiring for the team: create JD, run interviews, sourcing, onboarding.
• Coach engineers with regular 1:1s, set clear expectations and give honest feedback.
• Manage performance: promotions, development plans, and underperformance resolutions.
• Collaborate with Tech Lead and PM to shape roadmap and priorities with data science and UX teams.
• Improve team processes (planning, async communication, releases, on‑call) via consensus and clear writing.
• Represent the team to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Distributed teams

Hiring & onboarding

Performance management

Stakeholder alignment

Tech leadership

LLM knowledge

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of approximately 12 engineers within the Chat platform of Agents and Context. You will manage, deliver roadmaps, and partner with PMs and Tech Leads to shape priorities.

The role emphasizes people leadership, async processes, and high‑caliber engineering across global teams. You will run hiring end to end, coach engineers, and ensure performance discipline while aligning with product goals and customer value.