Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer - Product Marketing at Elastic | USA | $113K/yr – $215K/yr

Elastic

Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer - Product Marketing

USA (Remote)

$113K/yr – $215K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end benchmarking program, turning test design into repeatable, scalable performance insights that guide product and platform improvements.

Benchmark Design: Define methodologies and guidelines to ensure consistent, fair testing across products.
Execution & Analysis: Run benchmarks, analyze results, and identify performance bottlenecks.
Knowledge Sharing: Publish reproducible findings via blogs/white papers and collaborate with engineering to validate approaches.

Job Description

Responsibilities
Define benchmark methodologies and guidelines.
Optimize each product to ensure equal testing conditions.
Run the benchmarks and analyze the results.
Work with engineering and developer relations to validate your approach and results.
Publish the results through technical blogs or white papers with the information and resources for others to recreate your tests.

Requirements
5+ years of software development experience with Python and Java, plus Linux shell scripting.
Strong understanding of distributed systems performance analysis, including CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, latency, and throughput.
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.
Ability to manage numerous projects and collaborate effectively across geographically distributed teams.

Nice to have
Experience building benchmarking frameworks, performance tooling, or automated test infrastructure.
Experience working in public cloud environments, especially AWS and GCP.
Experience with Kubernetes and/or Terraform.
Prior experience with Elasticsearch.
Experience applying AI to expand benchmarking practices, improve benchmark design, or enhance benchmarking tooling.

Benefits
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic

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Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Founded in 2012

San Francisco, California, USA

4.8K employees (453 in marketing)

www.elastic.co

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