This role pays less than
55%
of similar roles. Most pay
$171,850–$231,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$199k
versus about
$201k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
Principal Software Developer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch Performance team to lead architectural and code-level performance engineering initiatives. The role involves owning core performance projects from architecture to production, developing foundational models for complex distributed systems, and identifying bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL. You will build AI-assisted optimization harnesses to automate profiling and benchmarking while ensuring robust regression detection for stateful and stateless architectures. Key requirements include deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, and concurrency models. Candidates must be proficient with tools like flamegraphs, JMH, and Rally to optimize distributed systems. The role addresses the technical challenge of maintaining performance, predictability, and scalability within a large-scale data store and search engine environment while integrating high-performance native libraries such as C++, Rust, or SIMD-accelerated code.
What does a Software Developer earn?
Median $151475 from 90 postings across 16 companies.