Senior Storage Engine Engineer - Elasticsearch (Remote)

Elastic

United States

On-site

USD 159,900 - 252,900

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage
Flexible locations and schedules
Generous vacation days
Donation matching
Volunteer hours
Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Storage Engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query engine as part of a globally distributed, fully remote team.

The role focuses on high-performance storage, indexing, and query execution for observability workloads with strong emphasis on scalable systems. You will lead architectural evolution, drive cross-organizational initiatives, and mentor engineers while

Qualifications

  • Experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems.
  • Strong focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with Java and concurrency primitives.
  • Ability to design and optimize data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components to improve performance and scaling.
  • Drive cross-organizational initiatives for observability solutions.
  • Collaborate with a globally distributed team on logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
  • Mentor engineers and act as a trusted technical advisor across the organization.

Skills

Java
Distributed systems
Concurrency
SQL/NoSQL
AI acceleration

Tools

Elasticsearch
Solr
PostgreSQL
MongoDB

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Storage Engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query engine as part of a globally distributed, fully remote team.

The role focuses on high-performance storage, indexing, and query execution for observability workloads with strong emphasis on scalable systems. You will lead architectural evolution, drive cross-organizational initiatives, and mentor engineers while

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