Observability - Eng Prod - Performance Engineer

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:

This is a Software Engineer II role on our Performance Engineering team. This team ensures that the products we deliver to customers meet the scaling and performance expectations of our customers. The team focuses largely on comparative benchmarking but also conducts ad-hoc experiments and investigations of potential performance bottlenecks.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Contribute to performance evaluation frameworks written in Python and Golang.
• Build automation and orchestration tooling to facilitate testing our products at scale.
• Analyze performance characteristics of our software products and propose potential areas of optimization.
• Be a part of a Center of Excellence for software performance and scalability in Elastic and act as a trusted advisor to other teams about how to build software in production with a performance-oriented mindset.

What You Bring:

• Communication: You will have the ability to get your point across exceptionally well in both written and spoken communication and to include others in your decision-making process.
• Emotional intelligence: You'll have a good understanding of how to work on a distributed team of engineers around the world and you'll be able to put yourself in their shoes and see the world from their point of view.
• Highly analytical mindset: You'll be able to think through hard problems using evidence and data to support your conclusions. You'll be the type of person who avoids jumping to conclusions and you'll work methodically in search of truth. You should be very meticulous and conscious of the fact that small mistakes can have big consequences.
• Data-driven: When faced with a decision, among your first thoughts should be the kind of data you need to make an informed choice and you should be relentless in your search for high-quality data to refine and evaluate the decisions you make.
• Experienced: You should understand the value of adhering to standards and you should know when simple solutions are best and when to think outside the box. The ideal candidate should have experience running software in production at large scale and understand the inherent challenges that come with ultra-large deployments. The kind of background you should have includes:
  • Practical experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Comfort with basic cloud infrastructure tasks such as VM provisioning, object storage, working with instance types and local storage options, and creating or using custom VM images.
  • Basic familiarity with operating Kubernetes clusters (cloud-managed or self-hosted), including deploying applications, managing workloads, and working with Helm charts.

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 a 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.

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