Senior Software Development Manager - Workplace AI - Search

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

Elastic Agent Builder is our latest, recently launched platform that empowers developers to rapidly build and deploy powerful, production‑ready AI agents directly on top of Elasticsearch—leveraging the world's most sophisticated search relevance, vector database, and retrieval‑augmented generation capabilities. With intuitive context engineering primitives, natural‑language‑to‑ES|QL translation, customizable tools, secure data access, full observability through tracing and logging, and seamless integration into any environment via APIs or Kibana’s conversational interface, you can ship reliable, data‑grounded agents in minutes that chat with enterprise data, reason effectively, and take intelligent actions. As an

Engineering Manager

for this high‑impact product, you'll shape the future of AI agent development at Elastic, tackling exciting challenges in agentic workflows, hybrid search, personalization, and scaling context‑driven intelligence for the world's largest organizations—joining a team at the forefront of solving real‑world enterprise AI problems with innovative, open, and performant technology.

What You Will Be Doing

Drive technical vision and execution for the Elastic Agent Builder platform, focusing on agentic workflows, hybrid search, personalization, and scaling context‑driven intelligence.

Lead and manage a dedicated team of engineers—perform frequent 1‑on‑1s, deliver quarterly reviews, lead All‑Hands discussions, onboard, coach and mentor new and existing teammates.

Collaborate with other Tech, Team, and Product leads over a product roadmap—act as a crucial and communicative part of an engaged and upbeat team.

Help navigate customer experiences with our extraordinary, empathetic support teams—work with all types of people and roles.

What You Bring

Experience managing a team of people at scale; comfortable with flexible people management, rapid growth, servant leadership, and performance management.

Experience with remote management—understand how remote management differs from in‑office management and how to optimize for a distributed environment.

Experience as an individual contributor in an engineering role—have shipped quality code into delightful applications and understand how good teams build systems.

Bonus : Experience in building and shipping AI‑based products that operate reliably at enterprise scale.

Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills—craft concise and expressive thoughts into emails, issues, investigations, documentation, onboarding materials, and so on.

A curiosity about learning new tools, workflows and philosophies that can help you grow and thrive in an environment that drives toward change.

Additional Information – We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re launching a new career or growing an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and do what’s right for our people.

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.

Match up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.

Embrace parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Elastic is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

Compensation

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 $154,000—$243,600 CAD. This range is a guide and may be modified in the future. In addition to cash compensation, this role is eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program and 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.

Legal Notices

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Accessibility

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email

candidate_accessibility@elastic.co . We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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