Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

Leading competitive benchmarking initiatives, the full-time Senior Software Engineer will develop workloads, automate experiments, and analyze Elasticsearch performance against alternative systems in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities

• Own competitive benchmarking initiatives across various workloads, including search and observability
• Build and maintain automated benchmark harnesses and datasets that reflect real-world usage
• Collaborate with engineering teams to investigate performance differences and validate improvements

Required qualifications

• Solid software engineering skills with experience in Python or a relevant programming language
• Hands-on experience in evaluating performance in distributed systems or search infrastructure
• Depth in areas such as search, vector retrieval, or analytical databases
• Experience designing representative datasets and workloads
• Clear technical writing skills to communicate complex findings effectively