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Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

Elastic· Platform - Elasticsearch
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About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch Storage Engine team responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing core storage and query engine for Elasticsearch, with a focus on storage efficiency, query processing, and data layouts for object storage. Globally distributed, remote-friendly role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
  • Lead cross organizational initiatives to drive and build industry-leading observability solutions.
  • Work with a globally distributed team focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
  • Drive continuous operational and system improvements by introducing best practices for clean coding standards, demystifying complex system behaviors, untangling complexity to bring architectural clarity across the platform.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) across key areas of Elasticsearch, acting as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to the wider engineering organization.
  • Work with a global community to triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests, collaborating with domain experts as needed.
  • Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Qualifications

  • Collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects or codebases as needed.
  • Autonomous, able to drive decisions and results in a distributed team via asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
  • Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
  • Prompt-engineering mindset to leverage AI agents effectively with sound engineering judgment.
  • Implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
  • Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus and understanding of how they work.
  • Strong core Java skills, deep understanding of concurrency, and ability to design/optimize efficient data structures and algorithms.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, collaborative and respectful in distributed teams.

Skills

Required:JavaDistributed systemsIndexing and storage techniques
Nice to have:Elasticsearch/Solr/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Prometheus

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
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous number of vacation days each year
  • Company donation matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent)
  • Up to 40 hours per year toward volunteer projects
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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