Principal Performance Engineer - Elasticsearch

United States Digital Space LLC; Portugal; Híbrido; EUR 67 000 - 106 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Health coverage for you and yourFamily

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Competitive pay

Resumo da oferta

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Performance team. You will lead architectural and code-level performance initiatives to optimize Elasticsearch across diverse environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive automation for profiling and benchmarking, and collaborate with multiple teams to embed performance-first thinking from the outset. The role offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualificações

• Experience with profiling and optimizing distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Java and JVM internals.
• Experience with AI-assisted optimization tools.
• Ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsabilidades

• Own performance initiatives from architecture to production.
• Develop performance models for distributed systems.
• Drive optimization strategies for Elasticsearch scalability.
• Profile system behavior to identify bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL.
• Ensure robust benchmarks and regression detection for stateful and serverless architectures.
• Collaborate across teams to embed performance-first thinking into new features.
• Design and build AI-assisted optimization harnesses.
• Mentor and coach engineers to foster performance-aware development.

Conhecimentos

Java internals

JVM memory management

Concurrency design

Performance profiling

Distributed systems

AI tooling for optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Ferramentas

Flamegraphs

JMH

Rally

Descrição da oferta de emprego

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Performance team. You will lead architectural and code-level performance initiatives to optimize Elasticsearch across diverse environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive automation for profiling and benchmarking, and collaborate with multiple teams to embed performance-first thinking from the outset. The role offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.