Software development Manager, Engineering Productivity - Platform

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Elastic

Compensation

$128,300 - $203,000/year

Canada

On-site

Posted March 26, 2026

Job Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We are looking for a software development manager to lead a distributed engineering team in our Engineering Productivity Team. The Platform Engineering Productivity team owns key developer productivity and CI/CD/Release functions for Elastic engineering. Our emerging internal developer platform presents these functions and functions include bootstrapping services, developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, product release pipelines, and Backstage. The team uses a diverse technology stack, including the Argo tool suite (ArgoCD, Argo Events, Argo Workflows), the CueLang language, and various internal Golang projects.

What You Will Be Doing

Build a roadmap, disambiguate the work, and drive priorities for your team, based on a mid to long-term vision you’ll help develop for the team
Manage, mentor, and lead a globally distributed team of 8 engineers, providing frequent feedback and building cohesion in a widely distributed team
Advocate, unblock, and represent the team within the organization
Actively participate in the wider Engineering Productivity and Infrastructure management cohorts
Participate in our Major Incidents on-call rotation as Incident Commander
Identify and implement processes that improve team productivity and software quality

What You Bring

Experience leading diverse teams of software engineers as a line manager (people manager)
Experience leading engineering projects that cross engineering teams
Experience as a hands-on software engineer and strength in computer science fundamentals to understand the engineering work that is going on in your team
Strong written and spoken English communication skills
Superb organizational skills, stakeholder management skills, and project management capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to drive technical vision, operational rigor, and cross-team collaboration.
A compassionate approach to communication, a good sense of humor, and a genuine curiosity about the success and growth of the people you work with
Experienced in designing and scaling developer experience, making engineers faster, not just building tools.
Developer productivity metrics: knows how to measure what matters (DORA, SPACE, cycle time) without surveillance.

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 new hires in this role is listed below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

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