Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) - Platform Infrastructure

About the Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Capacity) focused on platform infrastructure, you will play a critical role in managing and optimizing compute resources for Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless workloads. You will collaborate with control plane and platform engineering teams to solve complex cloud scaling and resource allocation challenges within a distributed team spanning EMEA and North America.

What You Will Be Doing

• Capacity Modeling: Assess current and future requirements to ensure seamless scaling. Develop and maintain accurate models that predict resource needs and align with business objectives.
• Resource Optimization: Implement strategies to optimize compute usage across cloud environments, ensuring high performance and cost-effective scalability.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Analyze capacity metrics and trends to guide resource allocation. Develop reporting tools to provide visibility into infrastructure performance.
• Autoscaling Operations: Operate and improve an autoscaling framework across 60+ Elastic Cloud regions. Collaborate with development teams to implement scaling best practices.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and capacity management.
• Proficiency with compute auto-scaling processes and capacity reservations across major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
• Solid software and platform engineering background.
• Strong understanding of performance monitoring, optimization techniques, and cloud scaling challenges.
• Proven experience in incident investigation and troubleshooting.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay based on role responsibilities.
• Health coverage for you and your family.
• Flexible work schedules and locations.
• Generous annual vacation policy.
• Financial donation matching (up to $2,000) and 40 hours of volunteer time off per year.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.