Senior Engineering Manager - Agents and Context - Platform
Core
Lead a distributed team of ~12 engineers building Elastic's conversational and agentic platform for chatting with and operating on customer data in Elasticsearch.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (People & Delivery Leadership)
Builds
Production software for the Chat team's agent harness, tools, retrieval, citations, streaming, memory, and evaluation layer.
Domain
Search AI, LLM-powered products, Elasticsearch, distributed software engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Engineering management, distributed team leadership, hiring & performance management, roadmap delivery, TypeScript/Node/React technical depth, LLM/RAG/agents familiarity, product acumen, async communication
Preferred skills
Elasticsearch/Kibana experience, open source community involvement
Technologies
TypeScript, Node, React, Elasticsearch, LLMs, RAG
Responsibilities
Own delivery of the Chat roadmap, run end-to-end hiring, coach and develop engineers, run performance management, partner with Tech Lead/PM on roadmap, build team processes, represent team to leadership
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader
