Senior Storage Engine Engineer - Elasticsearch (Remote)

Elastic; United States; On-site; USD 159,900 - 252,900; Full time

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