1 month ago
Ireland (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 decomposing architecture, assigning work, and owning outcomes.
- Drive technical communication, cross-team alignment, and documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisions.
- 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 voluntary adoption of better practices.
- 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/Argo CD, and Kubernetes.
- Experience identifying, designing, and delivering solutions across multiple quarters and organizations.
- Experience directing other engineers by breaking down complex problems into executable work and owning outcomes.
- Ability to challenge prescribed plans, propose better approaches, and build alignment across teams.
- Understanding of AI’s impact on supply chain security and scale, and use of AI to accelerate individual and team productivity.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules as part of Elastic’s distributed-company model.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000, or local 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.