Remote Senior Storage Engine Engineer for Elasticsearch

Referral Board; United States; On-site; USD 133,100 - 210,600; Full time

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Job summary

Elastic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This remote, globally distributed role focuses on building core storage and query technologies for observability workloads, improving storage efficiency, and optimizing data layouts for object storage.

You will design, implement, and optimize the Elasticsearch storage and query engine in a high-performance environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-performance, scalable storage, search, or distributed systems.
• Strong core Java skills and understanding of concurrency primitives.
• Ability to collaborate across distributed teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural evolution of core storage engine components and optimize indexing layouts.
• Drive observability initiatives and cross-organizational projects.
• Work with globally distributed team focused on logs and metrics.
• Introduce best practices for clean coding and architectural clarity.
• Serve as SME and mentor to engineering organization.
• Review issues and PRs across the community and domain experts.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Concurrency

AI acceleration

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Prometheus

Job description

Elastic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This remote, globally distributed role focuses on building core storage and query technologies for observability workloads, improving storage efficiency, and optimizing data layouts for object storage.

You will design, implement, and optimize the Elasticsearch storage and query engine in a high-performance environment.