1 month ago
Portugal (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, engineering friction, and supply chain security risks.
- 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 cross-team technical communication, alignment, and high-quality systems and architecture documentation.
- Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain or release incidents and implement structural improvements.
- Raise engineering standards through code review, mentorship, design review, and voluntary adoption of standards.
- 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 ability 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, designing, and delivering multi-quarter initiatives across organizational boundaries.
- Experience directing the work of other engineers by breaking down complex problems into executable work and owning outcomes.
- Ability to challenge prescribed plans, build credibility, and gain alignment on better approaches.
- Understanding of AI’s impact on supply chain security and scale, and use of AI to accelerate individual and team work.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Competitive pay based on the work performed rather than previous salary.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles at this distributed company.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Donation matching of up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours per year 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.