1 month ago
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Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision and roadmap for CI/CD from problem identification through organization-wide adoption.
- Identify and remediate CI/CD bottlenecks, engineering friction, and 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 technical communication, cross-team alignment, documentation, code review, mentorship, and design review.
- Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity supply chain and release incidents and drive structural improvements afterward.
- Review code, prototype approaches, and debug production issues while leading primarily through the work of others.
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, along with 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 without direct reporting relationships.
- Experience directing other engineers toward outcomes by breaking down complex problems into executable work and owning results.
- Strong judgment, technical communication, and ability to build alignment around improved approaches.
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 the distributed company.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Matching of 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.