1 month ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD from problem identification through organization-wide adoption.
- Identify and remediate CI/CD bottlenecks, developer friction, and security risks before they become incidents.
- Design and enforce scalable release gates for supply chain integrity, artifact provenance, and release readiness.
- Direct engineers through complex, multi-quarter projects by decomposing architecture, assigning work, and owning outcomes.
- Drive technical communication, cross-team alignment, documentation, and architectural decision records.
- Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain or release incidents and drive structural improvements afterward.
- Raise engineering standards through code review, mentorship, design review, and technical guidance.
- Review code, prototype solutions, and debug production issues while providing technical leadership across teams.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in CI/CD and hardening release pipelines against supply chain attacks.
- Strong debugging skills across test runners, artifact stores, and cluster deployments.
- Hands-on experience with CI infrastructure such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent; GitOps/ArgoCD; and Kubernetes.
- Experience identifying, designing, and delivering multi-quarter initiatives across organizational boundaries.
- Experience directing other engineers by breaking complex problems into executable work and owning outcomes.
- Ability to challenge prescribed plans, build alignment, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
- Understanding of AI’s impact on supply chain security and scale, and use of AI to accelerate individual and team work.
Benefits
- Distributed company with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Competitive pay based on the work performed rather than previous salary.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Donation matching of up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.