Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using

all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than

50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the

results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information

more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on

the promise of AI.

We're looking for a Senior Software

Engineer​ to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team​.  This globally distributed, fully remote

team of experienced engineers develops core storage and query technologies for observability workloads, including improving

storage efficiency, advancing ES|QL query processing and performance, and optimizing data layouts for object storage.

This

role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine. The ideal candidate

has experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems, with a strong focus on storage,

indexing, query execution, and performance optimization.

Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best

engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom,

and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable, intuitive and high-quality software. We believe that the best way to do that is

to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental

improvements.

What You Will Be Doing​

• Lead the architectural evolution of core storage

engine components, continuously identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and

resource utilization.

• Lead cross organizational initiatives to drive and build industry-leading observability

solutions.

• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of

Elasticsearch.

• Drive continuous operational and system improvements by introducing best practices for clean coding

standards, demystifying complex system behaviors, untangling complexity to bring architectural clarity across the platform.

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) across key areas of Elasticsearch, acting as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to

the wider engineering organization.

• Work with a global community to triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests,

collaborating with domain experts as needed.

• Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

What You Bring​

• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition

between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities

• You work autonomously and can drive

decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

• You have a

proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final

outcomes.

• You bring a prompt-engineering mindset to know how to leverage AI agents effectively, using sound engineering

judgment to validate results and recognize its limitations.

• You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index,

store, and query time-series or logs data.

• You have experience with one or more data storage technologies like

Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.

• You

have strong core Java skills, a deep understanding of its concurrency primitives, with a proven ability to design and optimize

efficient data structures and algorithms.

• You excel in a collaborative environment, actively participate in technical

discussions, and work effectively across distributed teams. Because it's the best way we know how to build software.

• You

have excellent verbal and written communication skills and collaborate with respect, empathy, and professionalism in a distributed

team.

Bonus Points​

• You've built things with Elasticsearch before.
• You've worked with open

source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.

• You’ve

worked on data storage technology.

• You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.

Compensation for this role is in the form of

base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At Elastic, our compensation

philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of

external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role.

This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including

relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and

complexity of the position.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

791.300 kr—1.251.700 kr NOK

As a distributed

company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type

of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of

college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and

while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in

many locations

• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous

number of vacation days each year

• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for

financial donations and service

• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing

parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives,

experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity,

color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status,

protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or

regulation.

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individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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