Director of Distributed Systems & Scale Engineering
Elastic
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Job summary
Elastic in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Elasticsearch Distributed Systems organization, focusing on scale, performance and resilience, especially for Serverless. You will guide ~40 engineers and managers across a distributed team, collaborating across Elastic to deliver complex initiatives and drive long-term strategy.
The role requires building and mentoring leaders, aligning priorities with product direction, and owning outcomes with a strong
Qualifications
- Experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and software engineering.
- Experience designing and delivering complex multi-team initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the long-term engineering strategy for Elasticsearch distributed systems.
- Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency improvements for Serverless Elasticsearch.
- Lead core distributed architecture evolution: cluster coordination, data allocation, indexing, replication, recovery.
- Provide technical oversight for complex initiatives and navigate architectural decisions across teams.
- Own outcomes, balancing complexity, customer impact, reliability, and maintainability.
- Mentor and develop engineering managers and senior leaders; foster inclusive, high-performance culture.
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Job description
Elastic in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Elasticsearch Distributed Systems organization, focusing on scale, performance and resilience, especially for Serverless. You will guide ~40 engineers and managers across a distributed team, collaborating across Elastic to deliver complex initiatives and drive long-term strategy.
The role requires building and mentoring leaders, aligning priorities with product direction, and owning outcomes with a strong
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