Elasticsearch - Software Engineer II (Performance Team)

Job Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Software Engineer II to join their Elasticsearch Performance Engineering team. In this role, the engineer will focus on architecting and developing automated tooling for benchmarking Elasticsearch ingest and search workloads at scale in the cloud.

The candidate will be responsible for the design and development of tools and automated processes for provisioning and executing Elasticsearch performance benchmarking jobs at scale. They will develop methodologies for benchmarking Elasticsearch to optimize price-performance across Cloud Service providers.

The role involves devising solutions for benchmarking disparate use cases and workloads for Elasticsearch stateful and serverless products at scale, investigating performance escalations, assisting in resolving capacity planning issues.

What the role involves:

• Participate in the design and building of tooling and automated processes for provisioning and execution of Elasticsearch performance benchmarking jobs at scale.
• 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.
• Investigate and assist in resolving performance escalations and capacity planning issues as required.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Python and Linux shell scripting are required, by way of 2+ years' professional experience.
• 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.

What Elastic offers:

• 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