Listing Description

About the role

Elastic is looking for a manager to lead our Security Integrations Capabilities team as they build the world-class componentry that powers hundreds of security integrations.

Elastic Security integrations enable organizations to leverage data from common security data sources to perform investigations and incident response. Our SIEM correlates data from these data sources, including cloud, network and endpoint sources using robust detection rules to find threats quickly.

We partner with the world's leading security companies on these integrations, including Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto, and many more.

In addition to guiding our way through our integrations roadmap, you'll help grow a diverse team of collaborative software engineers, each of whom will help shape the future of security integrations at Elastic. The existing team of 6 engineers is spread across Europe, Asia, and Australia, and we anticipate hiring more in the near future.

What you will be doing

• Mentor and lead a globally distributed team


• Lead the efficient delivery for time-boxed software releases, ensuring high quality and innovative feature development


• Work with our engineers and Product Managers to define requirements


• Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and consensus based decision-making


• Stay true to the principles of software development as adopted by our team


• Build roadmaps and lead prioritization; balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast paced engineering team


• Support the development and training of direct reports through coaching and regular performance evaluations


• Participate in interviewing and drive hiring and team growth


• Be an awesome person to work with, somebody who sincerely cares

What you will bring along

• Experience leading teams of software engineers


• Significant work as a hands-on software engineer so you understand the core principles of the engineering work that is going on in your team


• Experience with Github, project management


• Excellent communication skills and practices with the ability to drive technical conversations to conclusion


• Experience working in a highly distributed team with asynchronous workflows


• A passion for building diverse teams of great people

Experience/ interest in some of these areas would be nice

• Open source projects and companies


• Experience directly managing software engineers


• Experience with integration development, especially in the area of security products


• Automated testing


• Communication and organization in large, distributed teams