Senior Storage Engine Engineer for Elasticsearch (Remote)

Referral Board; Town of Greece (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Generous vacation days

Parental leave (minimum 16 weeks)

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query engine components for high-performance, scalable databases and distributed systems.

The role involves working with a globally distributed, fully remote team and mentoring engineers across continents. The ideal candidate has deep experience in storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization, with strong Java skills and a

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building high-performance storage/DB systems.
• Proven ability to optimize data layouts and indexing.
• Experience with Java concurrency and scalable systems is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural evolution of core storage engine components and optimize performance.
• Drive observability initiatives across the platform.
• Collaborate with globally distributed engineers and mentor teams.
• Write idiomatic Java and contribute to code reviews.
• Triage and review issues and pull requests with domain experts.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Storage engines

Performance optimization

AI tooling

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. You will design, implement, and optimize core storage and query engine components for high-performance, scalable databases and distributed systems.

The role involves working with a globally distributed, fully remote team and mentoring engineers across continents. The ideal candidate has deep experience in storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization, with strong Java skills and a