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Posted Sep 29, 2026 · Platform - Elasticsearch

Director of Software Engineering - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Real people manager Director+est Manages managers People-first Onsite $200k–316k 1 company signal →
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Direct from Elastic's careers pageVerified fresh Oct 17, 2026 via their Greenhouse job board. Removed here within a day of closing.
Open 18 days
Since Sep 29, 2026
No reposts seen. Repost tracking started Oct 17, 2026.
Pay: bottom 25%
Midpoint $258k vs median $322k for Director+ roles we track (n=39)
Percentile 12 of posted US base ranges at this level · See the Director+ salary page
Real people manager
The posting describes people-management duties:
  • ✓ performance reviews / managementRun performance management with consistency (promotions, development plans, and managing underperformance through to resolution) and working with your managers to do the same.
  • ✓ hiring for the teamWe hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are.
  • ✓ manages managers

About the role

As Director of Software Engineering, you will be leading an organisation of approximately 40 engineers and managers to tackle the deep distributed systems challenges that allow Elasticsearch to excel at scale. The ability to lead a distributed team is critical.

Short summary only. The full description, requirements and application are on Elastic's careers site.

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