Senior Competitive Benchmarking Developer - Product Marketing

ABOUT THE ROLE Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer to join its Product Marketing Organization. This role will measure, validate and communicate performance metrics on Elastic vs competitive products. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to position Elastic's offerings effectively against competitors, ensuring the organization remains competitive in a dynamic market. The ideal candidate brings a strong mix of technical, business and communication ability. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer, you will be responsible for defining benchmark methodologies and guidelines, optimizing each product to ensure equal testing conditions, running benchmarks and analyzing results, working with engineering and developer relations to validate your approach and results, and publishing the results through technical blogs or white papers. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need 5+ years of software development experience with Python and Java, plus Linux shell scripting. You will also need a 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, and experience writing about benchmarking results for external audiences are also required. Additionally, you will need the ability to manage numerous projects and collaborate effectively across geographically distributed teams. WHY REMOTE As a distributed company, Elastic values diversity and offers a flexible work environment. You will have the opportunity to balance great work with great life, regardless of your location or background. BENEFITS Elastic offers a comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive base salary, a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, and a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being. The typical starting salary range for this role is $122,300 - $172,300 CAD.