Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

The role

This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine. You will lead the architectural evolution of storage engine components and drive observability solutions within a globally distributed team.

What you will do

• 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 team focused on logs and metrics capabilities
• Introduce best practices for clean coding standards and architectural clarity
• Serve as a subject matter expert and technical advisor/mentor
• Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests with a global community
• Write idiomatic modern Java

Required qualifications

• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams
• Ability to work autonomously in a distributed team using asynchronous communication
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug systems, and optimize code
• Prompt-engineering mindset to leverage AI agents
• Implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data
• Experience with one or more data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus
• Strong core Java skills
• Deep understanding of Java concurrency primitives
• Ability to design and optimize efficient data structures and algorithms
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Built things with Elasticsearch before
• Worked with open source projects
• Familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
• Worked on data storage technology
• Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
• Past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development

Benefits

• Base salary
• Stock program eligibility
• Company-matched 401k up to 6% of eligible earnings
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Match up to $2000 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Before you apply

• An export license may be required if you are located in or are a national of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), or the

About the company

Elastic is the Search AI Company that enables finding answers in real time using all data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.