Senior Python Engineer (Elasticsearch)

TL;DR

Senior Python Engineer (hirify.globalsearch): Architecting and developing automated tooling for benchmarking hirify.globalsearch ingest and search workloads at scale in the cloud with an accent on performance and deployment. Focus on cloud architectures, service models, and operating across multiple cloud service providers.

Location: Spain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden

Company

hirify.global, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale.

What you will do

• Participate in the design and building of tooling and automated processes for provisioning and execution of hirify.globalsearch performance benchmarking jobs at scale.
• Maintain Rally, an open source Python based benchmarking tool, and act as a source of best practice within the team regarding Python-based tooling.
• Define best practices, methodologies, and guidelines for performance benchmarking of hirify.globalsearch servicing development teams and solution architects.
• Address and devise solutions for benchmarking disparate use cases and workloads.
• Develop reporting for and interpreting benchmarking results.

Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge of Python, including awareness of new features.
• Experience in Linux shell scripting.
• Prior experience with CI/CD pipelines and automating process workflows.
• Experience in cloud architectures, service models, and operating across multiple cloud service providers, assessing tradeoffs from both performance and deployment perspectives.
• Familiarity with measuring performance and sizing in Linux VM and container environments.
• Ability to multitask, effectively manage your time, and collaborate with team members globally across time zones.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in the troubleshooting and root cause analysis of performance issues in complex distributed architectures.
• Prior experience with large, distributed search engines and in developing and tuning queries.
• Cloud orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with the hirify.globalsearch Query API and building Kibana dashboards.

Culture & Benefits

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave