Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Overview

The role involves joining Elastic as a Senior Software Engineer focusing on the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This fully remote team develops core storage and query technologies for observability workloads, emphasizing storage efficiency and query performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.
• Drive initiatives for building industry-leading observability solutions.
• Collaborate with a distributed team on Elasticsearch's logs and metrics capabilities.
• Introduce best practices for clean coding standards and improve architectural clarity.
• Act as a subject matter expert and technical advisor within the engineering organization.
• Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests collaboratively.
• Write idiomatic modern Java, as Elasticsearch is primarily Java-based.

Requirements

• Ability to collaborate across functions and transition between projects smoothly.
• Experience in leveraging AI for development, debugging, and code optimization.
• Knowledge of efficient indexing, storage, and querying techniques for time-series or logs data.
• Familiarity with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Strong core Java skills and understanding of concurrency primitives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills within distributed teams.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on current role responsibilities, not previous salary.
• Health coverage for employees and their families in many locations.
• Flexible location and schedule options.
• Generous vacation days annually.
• Financial contribution matching for donations and volunteer hours.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Location

Fully remote role, open to candidates in Greece.

How to Apply

Refer to the company’s application process.

Deadline

Not specified.