Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) - Platform Infrastructure

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

€71.200—€94.400 EUR

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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