Elasticsearch - Senior Software Engineer (Performance Team)

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch Performance Engineering team, with a focus on architecting and developing the automated tooling for benchmarking Elasticsearch ingest and search workloads at scale in the cloud.

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

What You Will Be Doing

• Participate in the design and building of tooling and automated processes for provisioning and execution of Elasticsearch performance benchmarking jobs at scale.
• Define best practices, methodologies, and guidelines for performance benchmarking of Elasticsearch servicing development teams and solution architects.
• Develop methodologies and processes for benchmarking Elasticsearch to determine the optimal price-performant instance type selection across Cloud Service providers.
• Devise solutions for benchmarking disparate use cases and workloads for Elasticsearch stateful and serverless products at scale.
• Architect solutions for performance benchmarking of evolving and key product features of Elasticsearch.
• Investigate and assist in resolving performance escalations and capacity planning issues as required.

What You Bring

• Proficiency in Python, Java, and Linux shell scripting are required.
• Familiarity with Linux system-level performance measurement and associated tooling (for example: how to measure and compare CPU and disk I/O performance between cloud provider instance types).
• Knowledge of cloud orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud architectures, service models, and operating across multiple cloud service providers.
• Ability to assess tradeoffs from both performance and deployment perspectives.
• Ability to multitask, effectively manage your time, and collaborate with team members globally across time zones.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis of performance issues in complex distributed architectures.
• Experience with performance tuning of Java applications and JVMs.
• Prior experience with large, distributed search engines and in developing and tuning queries.
• Prior experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with the Elasticsearch Query API and building Kibana dashboards is a strong plus.

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/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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.

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