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

We’re looking for a curious, relationship-driven Senior Technical Recruiter to join our EMEA Talent Acquisition team and partner with the hard-working team building Elastic’s engineering organization. You’ll collaborate closely with leaders across Elasticsearch, Data & Compute, and Distributed Systems—helping us find, engage, and hire the engineers who build the backbone of our products.

If you enjoy high trust, high impact work, love diving into sophisticated technical spaces, enjoy building genuine partnerships with engineering leaders, and thrive in a globally distributed, team - this might be your place!

You’ll have plenty of room to run, a team that’s genuinely supportive, and the chance to help shape how world-class engineers experience Elastic from their very first interaction. Interested? Read on!

What You Will Be Doing

End-to-End Recruiting Leadership

Own full-cycle recruitment for senior technical roles across the Platform organization, including distributed systems developers, AI engineers, product managers and engineering leaders.
Serve as a strategic partner to hiring managers, driving intake discussions, defining hiring strategies, benefiting from market insights, and ensuring an outstanding experience for engineers interviewing at Elastic.

Sourcing & Pipeline Development

Proactively source, engage, and nurture top global talent using innovatory sourcing strategies, data insights, and a deep understanding of distributed systems and open-source engineering communities.
Build and maintain diverse pipelines of great candidates through targeted outreach, community engagement, and consistent relationship management.

Process Management

Guide and influence your hiring partners, providing clear recommendations and data-driven insights.
Lead interview processes in a highly distributed environment, ensuring clarity, consistency, and efficiency across time zones and teams.
Partner closely with Recruiting Operations, Finance, and HR teams to ensure alignment and a smooth hiring workflow.

Experience & Elastic Brand

Champion Elastic’s values through every interaction, ensuring candidates experience our culture of empathy, transparency, and collaboration distributed by design.
Represent Elastic authentically in the market, helping articulate our engineering vision, distributed work ethos, and open-source approach to both work we do and products we build.

What You Bring

Technical Recruiting Expertise

Extensive experience recruiting for senior engineering roles within high-growth, global technology companies, ideally with exposure to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, site reliability, data engineering, or search technologies.
Strong ability to understand intricate technical environments (e.g., Elasticsearch, AI, distributed systems architecture) and translate them into compelling career conversations.

Relationship Building & Stakeholder Management

Consistent track record partnering with and influencing senior engineering leaders in a consultative, thoughtful, and data-driven manner.
Outstanding communication skills and comfort operating across geographies and time zones in a fully distributed team.

Sourcing Craft & Pipeline Ownership

Demonstrated success crafting and implementing creative sourcing strategies that surface both active and passive talent across EMEA.
Ability to handle your pipeline independently, including detailed tracking, reporting, and candidate experience management.

Purposeful Collaboration

Deep alignment with Elastic’s values: you're humble, action-biased, appreciate teamwork, transparency and openness.
Comfort working asynchronously and independently while staying connected to a distributed team.

Additional Strengths (Nice to Have)

Experience recruiting within open-source communities or engineering organisations with a distributed-first model.
Familiarity with tools like Greenhouse and distributed communication practices (Slack, GitHub-style collaboration).

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. 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.

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 the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)

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