Elastic Platform - Senior Product Manager Distributed & Serverless 

United States 

117195956

We’re looking for someone who has experience in software or SaaS companies and has worked on infrastructure, platform, or developer-focused products. You don’t need to define the long-term vision, but you should be able to show how you’ve contributed to delivering real impact and outcomes as part of a team. You’ll work side by side with engineers, designers, and product peers to execute on roadmap initiatives, refine requirements, and make Elasticsearch even better.

• Driving impactful product initiatives by working closely with the Distributed Systems engineering team to improve how Elasticsearch handles scalability, performance, and resilience across all deployment models.
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and other product managers to define requirements, refine priorities, and ensure successful execution of roadmap initiatives.
• Engaging with customers and internal teams to understand real-world challenges, gather feedback, and ensure that Elasticsearch meets the needs of developers, platform teams, and enterprises.
• Measuring success and driving continuous improvements by tracking key performance indicators, analyzing usage data, and identifying opportunities to enhance Elasticsearch’s reliability and efficiency.
• Conducting competitive analysis to understand market trends, identify differentiators, and ensure Elasticsearch remains a leader in the distributed systems and database space.

• 4+ years of experience in product management within a software or SaaS company, or a technical background delivering complex systems in other industries.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems, including how data is indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based and serverless architectures. Direct experience with serverless environments is a plus.
• Experience defining requirements and collaborating on the design of APIs, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to balance technical trade-offs and business priorities when making product decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, designers, and other stakeholders across a globally distributed team.
• A collaborative and curious mindset, with a willingness to learn, adapt, and contribute to a fast-moving, highly technical product space.

• A technical background, such as prior experience as a software engineer, SRE, or architect, who has transitioned into product management.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, databases, or cloud infrastructure, with a strong understanding of their trade-offs and challenges.
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, or Beats.
• Experience with other database, search, or analytical SaaS and serverless products, such as OpenSearch, Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB, or Kafka.
• Understanding of the challenges of operating large-scale distributed systems, such as networking, consistency models, replication strategies, and failure handling.
• Experience working closely with developers as well as field teams, including solutions architects, customer success engineers, sales engineers, and support teams, to understand customer challenges and drive adoption.
• Passion for working in an open-source environment, engaging with community contributors, and helping build products that developers love.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

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.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$133,100—$210,600 USD

$159,900—$252,900 USD