Senior Python Engineer (Performance Team) - Elasticsearch

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch Performance Engineering team, with a focus on architecting and developing the automated tooling for benchmarking Elasticsearch ingest and search workloads at scale in the cloud. What You Will Be Doing

• Participate in the 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.
• Define best practices, methodologies, and guidelines for performance benchmarking of Elasticsearch servicing development teams and solution architects.
• Address and devise solutions for benchmarking disparate use cases and workloads.
• Develop reporting for and interpreting benchmarking results.

• Expert-level knowledge of Python required, including awareness of new features.
• Experience in Linux shell scripting.
• 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.
• Familiarity with measuring performance and sizing in Linux VM and container environments.
• Ability to multitask, effectively manage your time, and collaborate with team members globally across time zones.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis of performance issues in complex distributed architectures.
• Prior experience with large, distributed search engines and in developing and tuning queries.
• Cloud orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with the Elasticsearch Query API and building Kibana dashboards is a strong plus.