Senior Software Engineer, Performance & Distributed Systems

Elastic; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch Performance team. You will improve optimization and predictability of Elasticsearch performance, working with distributed systems across teams to deliver high-impact improvements.

We require deep Java and JVM expertise, proficiency with profiling tools, and a track record of scalable, high-performance code. This role is distributed with strong collaboration and AI-assisted optimization focus.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Java internals and JVM memory management.
• Strong experience profiling distributed systems and using benchmarking tools.
• Proven track record in high-performance, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core performance initiatives from development to production.
• Design and implement performance improvements for distributed systems.
• Profile and analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks.
• Ensure robust benchmarks and regression detection for stateful and serverless architectures.
• Collaborate across teams to apply performance-focused practices.
• Develop AI-assisted optimization tools to speed profiling and benchmarking.

Skills

Java internals

JVM memory management

Concurrency & thread-safety

Profiling & benchmarks

Tools

JMH

Rally

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch Performance team. You will improve optimization and predictability of Elasticsearch performance, working with distributed systems across teams to deliver high-impact improvements.

We require deep Java and JVM expertise, proficiency with profiling tools, and a track record of scalable, high-performance code. This role is distributed with strong collaboration and AI-assisted optimization focus.