Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer - Product Marketing

Elastic is seeking a Senior Competitive Benchmarking Engineer to join its Product Marketing Organisation. 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 organisation remains competitive in a dynamic market. The ideal candidate brings a strong mix of technical, business and communication ability. You thrive in ambiguity, think critically, and can dive deep to deliver valuable insights.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining benchmark methodologies and guidelines.
• Optimising each product to ensure equal testing conditions.
• Running the benchmarks and analysing the results.
• Working with engineering and developer relations to validate your approach and results.
• Publishing the results through technical blogs or white papers with the information and resources for others to recreate your tests.

Requirements include:

• 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 containerised environments.
• Experience writing about benchmarking results for external audiences.
• Ability to manage numerous projects and collaborate effectively across geographically distributed teams.

Bonus points include:

• 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.