Senior Software Engineer - Elasticsearch Performance Team
ElasticJob Overview
Join Elastic, the leading platform for search-powered solutions, as a Senior Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch Performance Team. This role is pivotal in architecting and developing automated tooling for benchmarking Elasticsearch ingest and search workloads at scale in the cloud.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
- Proficiency in Python, Java, and Linux shell scripting are required.
- Knowledge of cloud orchestration with Kubernetes and Linux OS fundamentals.
- Experience with cloud architectures, service models, and operating across multiple cloud service providers.
- Ability to assess tradeoffs from both performance and deployment perspectives.
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.
- Familiarity with the Elasticsearch Query API and building Kibana dashboards is a strong plus.
Additional Information
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. 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.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Competitive salary
- Health coverage for family
- Flexible work locations and schedules
- Generous vacation days
- Parental leave
- Volunteer time off
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