Software Engineer, Elastic
Elasticsearch, Performance Team
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Software that searches and analyses data in real time
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Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in Python and Linux shell scripting are required, by way of 2+ years' professional experience
- Familiarity with Linux system-level performance measurement and associated tooling (for example: how to measure and compare CPU and disk I/O performance between cloud provider instance types)
- Knowledge of cloud orchestration with Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud architectures, service models, and operating across multiple cloud service providers
- Ability to assess tradeoffs from both performance and deployment perspectives
- Ability to multitask, effectively manage your time, and collaborate with team members globally across time zones
Desirable
- Prior experience in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis of performance issues in complex distributed architectures
- Experience with performance tuning of Java applications and JVMs
- Prior experience with large, distributed search engines and in developing and tuning queries
- Prior experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with the Elasticsearch Query API and building Kibana dashboards is a strong plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Software Engineer II 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
- Participate in the design and building of tooling and automated processes for provisioning and execution of Elasticsearch performance benchmarking jobs at scale
- Develop methodologies and processes for benchmarking Elasticsearch to determine the optimal price-performant instance type selection across Cloud Service providers
- Devise solutions for benchmarking disparate use cases and workloads for Elasticsearch stateful and serverless products at scale
- Investigate and assist in resolving performance escalations and capacity planning issues as required
Our take
Elastic develops the Elastic Stack, an open-source set of tools that includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, designed for data search and analysis. It also offers X-Pack, which adds commercial features to the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products.
This technology is widely used by major companies like eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix, along with over 17,000 other organizations. It is applied in various use cases, including application and website search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management (APM), security analytics (enhancing SIEM applications), and business analytics.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)
Company values
- Customer, 1st: Our customers, our community, are the heart of everything we do. In our actions. In our products. And in the experiences we create for them. Our passion for our users translates into their passion for Elastic
- Home, Dinner: Elastic empowers you with the flexibility. Be home for dinner, go for a run midday, care for a sick child, or visit a parent. We get it
- Space, Time: It’s easy to get stuck in a day-to-day work pattern. We want you to take the time to dream the un-obvious
- IT, Depends: It can be complicated to make new things possible. When a question is asked, buckle up. Your journey will likely start with "it depends"
- Progress, SIMPLE Perfection: Perfection is not a destination. An Elastic that moves is an Elastic that survives, thrives, and stands the test of time
- 01.02,/FORMAT: Our products are distributed by design. Our company is distributed by intention. Appreciate the view, culture, and language of others
- As YOU, Are: We all come in different shapes with different interests and skills. We all have an accent. Celebrate it. Just come as you are. No need to invest neurons trying to fit an arbitrary mold
- HUMBLE, Ambitious: Challenge yourself and the people around you to do better. Don’t be an asshole. Be humble. Be ambitious. At Elastic, we are both
- Speed, Scale, Relevance: Elastic is a search company. We produce relevant, fast results that operate at scale. This is our DNA. It’s what defines us, binds us, and makes us unique
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously held the position of Technology Director at GigaSpaces Technologies.
Simon Willnauer
(Co-Founder)Previously spent 13 years at The Apache Software Foundation, holding various positions such as VP Apache Lucene and Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member.
Uri Boness
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Architect and Head of Search at Orange11 for 7 years.
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