Role Overview
Elastic is seeking a Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer to join its Product Marketing Organization. This role will measure, validate and communicate performance metrics on Elastic vs competitive products. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to position Elastic's offerings effectively against competitors, ensuring the organization remains competitive in a dynamic market.
What You Will Do
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.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate brings a strong mix of technical, business and communication ability. You thrive in ambiguity, think critically, and can dive deep to deliver valuable insights.
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
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