1 month ago
Spain (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, 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 breaking down architecture, assigning work, and owning outcomes.
- Drive technical communication, cross-team alignment, documentation, code review, mentorship, and design review.
- Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain or release incidents and lead structural improvements afterward.
- Review code, prototype approaches, and debug production issues while providing leverage through the work of other engineers.
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 or GitHub Actions, GitOps/ArgoCD, and Kubernetes.
- Experience identifying and owning multi-quarter, cross-organizational technical initiatives.
- Experience directing other engineers toward outcomes by decomposing complex problems and holding ownership for delivery.
- Ability to challenge prescribed plans, develop better approaches, and build alignment across teams.
- Ability to use AI to accelerate individual and team work and understand its impact on supply chain security and scale.
Benefits
- Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules in a distributed company.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000, or local currency equivalent, for financial donations and service.
- 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.