engineering
Posted 6 days agoSenior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch
at Elastic
GreeceOn-site
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java! What You Bring
Requirements
- 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. What is The Role
- experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems, with a strong focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization.
- We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.
- You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
- 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.
- 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've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
- experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.
- experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development.
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role.
Benefits
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and collaborate with respect, empathy, and professionalism in a distributed team. Bonus Points
- 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
- 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: €61.100 — €96.600 EUR Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Generous number of vacation days each year Increase
- your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
- Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)
Contact
- 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.
Additional details
- This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine. The ideal candidate has
- We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are.
- 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.
- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
- 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.
- You work autonomously and can drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
- You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data. You have
- You’ve worked on data storage technology. You have