Our mission on the Elastic Security team is to protect the world’s data from attack. Through our free and open approach, we are building a community and a product that’s making a meaningful difference in the lives of our users. Our practitioner heritage as a team means trust and transparency are at the core of how we communicate with each other and with our users.
We believe that engineering complex, pluggable software for the web that is built to last the test of time is both tricky and exciting. Doing so requires a team of diverse individuals, with sharp minds and the ability to empathize with our users, working together with mutual respect and a common mission.
About the role
Elastic is looking for a manager to lead our Security Integrations Deployment and Devices team as they build the world-class componentry that powers software deployed at the edge and inside our user's network perimeter. This team is uniquely positioned to cater to the needs of practitioners in DevOps and SecOps roles.
Elastic Security integrations enable organizations to leverage data from common security data sources to perform investigations and incident response. Our SIEM correlates data from these data sources, including cloud, network and endpoint sources using robust detection rules to find threats quickly.
In addition to guiding our way through our roadmap, you'll help grow a diverse team of collaborative software engineers, each of whom will help shape the future of security integrations at Elastic. The existing team of 7 engineers is spread across Europe and North America.
What you will be doing
- Mentor and lead a globally distributed team
- Lead the efficient delivery for time-boxed software releases, ensuring high-quality and innovative feature development
- Work with our engineers and Product Managers to define requirements
- Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and consensus-based decision-making
- Motivate the engineers to perform at their best. Meet with them regularly, guide and support them.
- Build roadmaps and lead prioritization; balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast-paced engineering team
- Support the development and training of direct reports through coaching and regular performance evaluations
- Participate in interviewing and drive hiring and team growth
- Be an awesome person to work with, somebody who sincerely cares
What you will bring along
- Experience leading teams of software engineers
- Significant work as a hands-on software engineer so you understand the core principles of the engineering work that is going on in your team
- Experience with Github, project management
- Excellent communication skills and practices with the ability to drive technical conversations to a conclusion
- Experience working in a highly distributed team with asynchronous workflows
- A passion for building diverse teams of great people
Experience/ interest in some of these areas would be nice
- Open-source projects and companies
- Experience with cloud-native methodologies and patterns
- Experience with security products, especially in the area of security analytics or SIEM.
- Experience directly managing software engineers
- Experience with automation and CI/CD
- Communication and organization in large, distributed teams
