Senior Elasticsearch Storage Engine Engineer (Remote)

Elastic; España; On-site; EUR 67,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch storage engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query components, focusing on performance, scalability, and efficient data layouts for observability workloads.

The role is fully remote with a globally distributed team, requiring collaboration across continents and strong Java expertise. You will mentor peers and drive architectural clarity across the platform.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building high-performance databases, search, or distributed systems.
• Proficient in Java and concurrency primitives.
• Familiar with storage, indexing, query engines, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural evolution of core storage engine components to remove indexing bottlenecks.
• Drive cross-organizational initiatives to build industry-leading observability solutions.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
• Promote clean coding standards and architectural clarity across the platform.
• Act as SME and mentor to the engineering organization.

Skills

Java

Concurrency

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

AI acceleration

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch storage engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query components, focusing on performance, scalability, and efficient data layouts for observability workloads.

The role is fully remote with a globally distributed team, requiring collaboration across continents and strong Java expertise. You will mentor peers and drive architectural clarity across the platform.