Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer I (Performance Team)

What is The Role

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer I to join our Elasticsearch Performance Engineering area. This role will focus on enhancing our processes and automated tooling for benchmarking Elasticsearch ingest and search workloads at scale in the cloud, and identifying performance regressions.

What you will be doing

• Design and building of tooling and automated processes for provisioning and execution of Elasticsearch performance benchmarking jobs at scale.


• Maintain our open source Python based benchmarking tool, Rally and act as a source of best practice within the team regarding our Python-based tooling.


• Defining methodologies and guidelines for performance benchmarking servicing development teams and solution architects.


• Participate or lead in cross-functional team efforts and engagements.


• Developing reporting for and interpreting benchmarking results.


• Investigate and assist in resolving performance escalations and capacity planning issues. 


• Address and devise solutions for benchmarking disparate use cases and workloads.

What you bring 

• Software development experience with Python and Linux shell required (Expert Level).


• Familiarity with Linux system-level performance measurement and associated tooling (for example: how to measure and compare CPU, memory, and disk I/O performance between cloud provider instance types).


• Prior experience in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis of performance issues in complex distributed architectures.


• Cloud orchestration with Kubernetes. 


• Prior experience with CI/CD pipelines and automating process workflows. 


• Experience in cloud architectures, service models, and operating across multiple cloud service providers,  assessing tradeoffs from both performance and deployment perspectives.


• Ability to multitask, effectively manage your time, and collaborate with team members globally across time zones.


• Familiarity with measuring performance and sizing in Linux VM and container environments. 

Bonus points

• 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.