Senior Cloud Capacity & Autoscaling Engineer

Elasticsearch B.V.; Ireland; Remote; EUR 98,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity to manage and optimize compute resources for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. You will collaborate with control plane and platform engineering teams across regions to address real-world cloud scaling challenges and resource allocation.

This role impacts how customers experience scalable, reliable search and AI capabilities. The position emphasizes proactive capacity modeling, autoscaling frameworks, and

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Assess current and future capacity requirements and develop capacity models to predict needs.
• Implement strategies to optimize resource usage across cloud environments for performance and scalability.
• Analyze capacity metrics and trends and develop reporting tools for visibility into capacity and performance.
• Operate an autoscaling framework and optimize infrastructure across multiple regions in Elastic Cloud.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Performance monitoring

Cloud scaling

Incident investigation

Auto-scaling

Platform engineering

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer focused on capacity to manage and optimize compute resources for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. You will collaborate with control plane and platform engineering teams across regions to address real-world cloud scaling challenges and resource allocation.

This role impacts how customers experience scalable, reliable search and AI capabilities. The position emphasizes proactive capacity modeling, autoscaling frameworks, and