Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Elastic

Elastic

Elastic is a leading platform for search-powered solutions, providing real-time insights and making data usable for developers and enterprises worldwide.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components and resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine.
  • Drive improvements in storage efficiency, indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives to build observability solutions.
  • Collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team across logs and metrics capabilities.
  • Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests with the broader community.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor for Elasticsearch engineering.
  • Introduce best practices that improve code quality and system clarity.
  • Write modern Java code for Elasticsearch's storage engine.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems.
  • Strong focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization.
  • Ability to collaborate across functions, teams, and changing project priorities.
  • Ability to work autonomously in a distributed team using asynchronous, direct communication.
  • Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.
  • Prompt-engineering mindset with sound judgment to validate AI outputs and understand limitations.
  • Experience implementing techniques to index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
  • Experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus.
  • Strong core Java skills and deep understanding of Java concurrency primitives.
  • Ability to design and optimize efficient data structures and algorithms.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Bonus points: experience with Elasticsearch, open source workflows, continuous integration, data storage technology, cross-functional initiatives, or database/search engine/OS/cloud service development.

Benefits

  • Base salary with no variable compensation component.
  • Typical starting salary range of €61,100 to €96,600 EUR.
  • Competitive pay based on the work you do, not your previous salary.
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
  • Generous number of vacation days each year.
  • Up to $2,000 match for financial donations and service.
  • Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
  • At least 16 weeks of parental leave.

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