About the company
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale.
Responsibilities
- Define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, from problem identification through org-wide adoption.
- Identify where CI/CD is a bottleneck, a source of friction, or a security risk before it becomes an incident, and drive the remediation rather than waiting to be assigned it.
- Design and enforce release gates covering supply chain integrity, artifact provenance, and release readiness, built to scale across teams without becoming a tax on engineering velocity.
- Direct engineers on your team through complex, multi-quarter projects: break down the architecture, assign the work, and own the outcome even when the execution is distributed.
- Drive clear technical communication and alignment across teams, and produce high-quality documentation for systems, processes, and architectural decisions.
- Serve as Incident Commander on high-severity supply chain or release incidents, and use each incident as a forcing function for structural improvements.
- Raise the engineering bar across the org through code review, mentorship, design review, and by setting standards others adopt voluntarily.
- Remain hands-on at the right depth: you'll review code, prototype approaches, and debug production issues, but your primary leverage at this level is through the work of others, not your own output.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in CI/CD and what it takes to harden a release pipeline against supply chain attacks.
- Strong debugging instincts across the full pipeline stack: you trace failures from test runner to artifact store to cluster deployment without needing a specialist for each layer.
- Hands-on with CI infrastructure (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent), GitOps/ArgoCD, and Kubernetes.
- You use AI to accelerate your own work and your team's and you understand AI's impact on supply chain security and scale.
- A track record of multi-quarter, cross-org ownership: you've identified the right problem, designed the solution, and gotten organizations that didn't report to you to change how they work.
- The judgment to push back on a prescribed plan when it's the wrong call, and the credibility to get alignment on a better approach.
- Experience directing the work of other engineers toward outcomes not just collaborating, but breaking down complex problems into executable work and holding the outcome.
Conditions
- Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
- The typical starting salary range for this role is: €80.400 — €127.200 EUR
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave