Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) - Platform Infrastructure

elastic· Platform - SRE
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📍 Portugal💰 EUR 65K–84K

About this role

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role
 
As a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing our compute resources, ensuring that our Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads can scale seamlessly. You’ll collaborate closely with our control plane and cross-functional platform engineering teams, addressing the real-world challenges of cloud scaling and resource allocation. Our diverse team spans EMEA and NASA, and together we tackle the complexities of building scalable systems, making a meaningful impact on how we serve our customers.
 
What You Will Be Doing
  • Assess current and future capacity requirements based on workload demands to ensure seamless scaling of resources. Develop and maintain accurate capacity models that predict resource needs and align with business objectives. Collaborate with teams to implement proactive measures that prevent capacity shortages and bottlenecks.
  • Implement effective strategies for optimizing resource usage across our cloud environments. Ensure that compute resources are utilized efficiently to enhance performance and support seamless scalability.
  • Analyze capacity metrics and trends to guide effective resource allocation decisions. Develop insightful reporting tools that provide clear visibility into capacity and performance, helping to optimize our compute resources.
  • Operate an autoscaling framework that accommodates various customer workloads seamlessly. Optimize infrastructure performance across over 60 regions in Elastic Cloud. Collaborate with development teams to implement scaling best practices effectively.
What You Bring
  • 5+ years with cloud infrastructure and capacity management
  • Knowledge of performance monitoring and optimization techniques
  • Understanding of cloud scaling challenges and solutions
  • Proficiency with incident investigation and troubleshooting processes
  • experience with compute auto-scaling processes and capacity reservations across the three major CSPs
  • solid software and platform engineering background
  • worked with the three major cloud service providers and navigated compute capacity scaling issues

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:
€65.300—€84.300 EUR

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
  • 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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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