Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer

Job Summary

To support its Product Marketing Organization, the full-time Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer will measure, validate, and communicate performance metrics on Elastic's products compared to competitors while collaborating with various teams to maintain a competitive edge in the market.

Key responsibilities

• Define benchmark methodologies and guidelines
• Run benchmarks and analyze results to optimize product testing conditions
• Publish findings through technical blogs or white papers for external audiences

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with Python and Java, plus Linux shell scripting
• Strong understanding of distributed systems performance analysis
• 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