Senior Storage Engine Engineer — Elasticsearch (Remote)

Referral Board; Norway; On-site; NOK 791,300 - 1,251,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time allowance

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic in Norway is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Storage Engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query components for high-performance, scalable systems in a globally distributed, fully remote team.

Candidates should have deep Java expertise and experience with distributed storage/query engines, plus a proven ability to optimize indexing and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems with a focus on storage and query execution.
• Strong understanding of indexing, serialization formats, and resource utilization for storage engines.
• Excellent cross‑functional collaboration and ability to drive decisions in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural evolution of core storage engine components and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Drive cross-organizational initiatives for observability solutions.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on logs and metrics in Elasticsearch.

Skills

Java

Concurrency primitives

Data structures & algorithms

Prompt engineering

Collaboration across teams

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Prometheus

Job description

Elastic in Norway is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Storage Engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query components for high-performance, scalable systems in a globally distributed, fully remote team.

Candidates should have deep Java expertise and experience with distributed storage/query engines, plus a proven ability to optimize indexing and performance.