Elastic Kibana Lead Architect 

United States, California, San Francisco 

91006070

• Responsible for technical vision and architecture of Kibana
• Leading the delivery of the forward-looking sustainable architecture
• Delivering operational SLOs, improving processes, maintainability, testability, re-use, and reliability
• Collaborating actively with other senior technical leaders to align roadmaps, making appropriate technology choices and trade offs
• Reviewing and approving implementation designs for core platform features
• Supporting the contributor community, building engagement, providing best practices and ensuring alignment with architecture
• Mentoring a dedicated and talented team of senior engineers

• Experience in a technical leadership role for a large and distributed team e.g. large projects, with more than 50 engineers
• Experience as a change leader, having delivered successful architecture evolutions and/or migrations
• A pragmatic approach, experience balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Experience building UI, API and backend platforms targeted at developers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Experience using the Elastic Stack and Kibana
• A good understanding of UX principles
• Experience with a statically typed language (e.g. TypeScript, Flow, Go, Java, etc)
• Understanding of JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Node.js, React, Redux)
• Has worked on software with a plugin system (e.g. Webpack, Bazel, grunt)
• Experience running or significantly contributing to an open source project
• Experience in Security, Observability or Search domains

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

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.