Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

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

Key responsibilities

• Own and prioritize competitive benchmarking initiatives across various workloads
• Build and maintain automated benchmark harnesses and datasets that reflect real-world usage
• Investigate performance differences and collaborate with engineering teams to identify causes and validate improvements

Required qualifications

• Solid software engineering skills with experience in Python or another relevant programming language
• Hands-on experience 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 explain complex findings and methodologies