Director of Software Engineering - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic · United States

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Company
Elastic
Location
United States
Salary
$199,700 — $315,900
Posted
September 29, 2026

About this job

What is The Role We are on the lookout for a Director of Software Engineering to lead our Elasticsearch Distributed Systems organisation which focuses on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering. As Director of Software Engineering, you will be leading an organisation of approximately 40 engineers and managers to tackle the deep distributed systems challenges that allow Elasticsearch to excel at scale. Your customers are every Elasticsearch user and each solution team which builds upon Elasticsearch. Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. As a result, our team is diverse and distributed across continents.…

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