Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) - Platform Infrastructure

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.

• 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.

• 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. The typical starting salary range for this role is: €76.000—€101.800 EUR.

• 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

Apply via the provided job link.