Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

1 day, 14 hours 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.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives to build observability solutions.
  • Work with a globally distributed engineering team on Elasticsearch logs and metrics capabilities.
  • Improve operational and system quality through clean coding standards and architectural clarity.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert and technical mentor across Elasticsearch.
  • Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests with the global community.
  • Write and maintain idiomatic modern Java code.
  • Collaborate with domain experts across teams as needed.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
  • Typical starting salary range of €67,000–€106,000 EUR.
  • Competitive pay based on the work you do, not previous salary.
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
  • Generous annual vacation days.
  • Up to $2,000 matching for financial donations and service.
  • Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

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