# Senior Engineering Manager - Agents and Context - Platform **Company**: Elastic **Location**: Poland **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: 369 400 zł-584 300 zł PLN **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8346201?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3ca311f0-634 ## 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 Chat team, part of Elastic’s Agents and Context group, builds the conversational and agentic platform that lets customers chat with and operate on their own data in Elasticsearch. As Senior Engineering Manager you will lead a distributed team of approximately 12 engineers building this platform. ## Responsibilities - Own delivery of the Chat roadmap: break it into milestones, see around corners on risk, and make sure the team ships predictably. - Run hiring end to end for the team: job descriptions, interview loops, sourcing with Recruiting, and onboarding. - Coach and develop engineers at every level, with regular 1:1s, clear expectations and honest feedback. - Run performance management with consistency: promotions, development plans, and managing underperformance through to resolution. - Partner with the Tech Lead and PM to shape roadmap and priorities, and with data science, UX, and the other Agents and Context teams on shared primitives and quality signals. - Build and improve team process (planning, async communication, release and on-call practice) through consensus and clear writing rather than top-down mandate. - Represent the team to leadership and stakeholders. ## Requirements - A proven track record as an established engineering manager of software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, promotions and performance management. - A track record of delivering large, multi-team software initiatives in a distributed, async-first environment, including creating or improving team processes. - Previous hands-on software engineering experience as a senior contributor, with enough technical depth to understand a TypeScript/Node/React stack, an Elasticsearch-backed system, and how LLM-powered products are built and evaluated. - Familiarity with LLM applications, ideally including RAG, agents and tool use, evaluation, and prompt and context engineering. - Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, search and information retrieval, or open source communities is a plus. - Product acumen: comfortable with ambiguity, able to set and communicate priorities, and genuinely interested in what makes an agentic product good for users. - Excellent written and verbal communication. Clear, concise long-form writing is how this team works. - Direct, kind, calm and empathetic. You hold people accountable and navigate hard conversations without drama. ## Benefits - 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 ## Skills ### Required - TypeScript - Node - React - Elasticsearch - LLM applications - RAG - agents and tool use - evaluation - prompt and context engineering ### Nice to have - Kibana - search and information retrieval - open source communities --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8346201?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)