Principal Engineer, Elasticsearch Performance Tuning

Elastic; Norway; Hybrid; NOK 950.000 - 1.502.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Performance team. You will lead architectural and code-level performance initiatives, driving optimizations for a highly distributed data platform used at scale.

The role emphasizes performance modeling, benchmarking, and automation with AI tools. You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and shape strategy to ensure Elasticsearch remains fast, predictable, and scalable in diverse environments.

Qualifikationen

• Strong knowledge of Java and JVM memory management.
• Experience profiling and optimizing distributed systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture and scaling challenges.
• Experience using AI to accelerate optimization and automate benchmarking.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and drive impact.

Aufgaben

• Own core performance initiatives from architecture to production for high-impact optimizations.
• Develop performance models and methodologies for complex, distributed systems.
• Drive optimization strategies to keep Elasticsearch performant and scalable.
• Profile system behavior to identify bottlenecks in logging, metrics, and vector search.
• Ensure robust benchmarks and regression detection for stateful and serverless architectures.
• Collaborate across the company to embed performance-first thinking in new features.
• Design AI-assisted optimization harnesses to streamline profiling and testing.
• Mentor engineers and promote performance-aware development.

Kenntnisse

Java internals

JVM memory management

Concurrency & thread-safety

Profiling distributed systems

Benchmarking tools

Distributed systems architecture

AI-assisted optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

JMH

Flamegraphs

Rally

Jobbeschreibung

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Performance team. You will lead architectural and code-level performance initiatives, driving optimizations for a highly distributed data platform used at scale.

The role emphasizes performance modeling, benchmarking, and automation with AI tools. You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and shape strategy to ensure Elasticsearch remains fast, predictable, and scalable in diverse environments.