1 month ago
Base Salary
$160k - $253k/yr
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, and architectural decision records.
- Serve as Incident Commander during high-severity supply-chain or release incidents and drive structural improvements afterward.
- Raise engineering standards through code review, mentorship, design review, and standards adoption.
- 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.
- Ability to use AI to accelerate individual and team work and understand its impact on supply-chain security and scale.
- Track record of multi-quarter, cross-organizational ownership and influencing teams outside the reporting structure.
- Judgment to challenge prescribed plans and build alignment around better technical approaches.
- Experience directing other engineers toward outcomes by decomposing complex problems into executable work and owning results.
Benefits
- Base salary with eligibility for Elastic’s stock program and no variable compensation component.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Distributed work environment with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance, donation matching up to $2,000, and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
- 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.