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This role pays more than
54%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,550–$220,112
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$206k
versus about
$195k
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
52 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 52 roles with salary data.
The Principal Software Engineer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch will join the Elasticsearch Performance team to lead architectural and code-level performance engineering initiatives. This role focuses on driving continuous optimization and predictability for Elasticsearch, ensuring the software remains performant and scalable across diverse environments. Key responsibilities include developing foundational performance models, profiling system behavior for logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL, and building AI-assisted optimization harnesses. The successful candidate will utilize deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, and concurrency models to write high-performance, thread-safe, and lock-free code. Required skills include experience with benchmarking tools like flamegraphs, JMH, and Rally, as well as distributed systems architecture. The role addresses technical challenges in large-scale data stores, including partition tolerance and cluster state propagation.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.