Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. The Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer will measure, validate and communicate performance metrics on Elastic vs competitive products, collaborating with various teams to position Elastic's offerings effectively against competitors.

Responsibilities

• Define benchmark methodologies and guidelines
• Optimize each product to ensure equal testing conditions
• Run the benchmarks and analyze the results
• Work with engineering and developer relations to validate your approach and results
• Publish the results through technical blogs or white papers with the information and resources for others to recreate your tests

Skills

• 5+ years of software development experience with Python and Java, plus Linux shell scripting
• Strong understanding of distributed systems performance analysis, including CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, latency, and throughput
• Experience performing root cause analysis for performance issues in complex systems
• Familiarity with benchmarking in Linux VM and containerized environments
• Experience writing about benchmarking results for external audiences
• Ability to manage numerous projects and collaborate effectively across geographically distributed teams
• Experience building benchmarking frameworks, performance tooling, or automated test infrastructure
• Experience working in public cloud environments, especially AWS and GCP
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Terraform
• Prior experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience applying AI to expand benchmarking practices, improve benchmark design, or enhance benchmarking tooling

Benefits

• Elastic's stock program
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• 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
• 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

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