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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.
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As a Principal Software Engineer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch, you will join the Elasticsearch Performance team to lead architectural and code-level performance engineering initiatives. You will be responsible for driving the optimization and predictability of Elasticsearch by developing foundational performance models, profiling system behavior in areas like vector search and ES|QL, and building AI-assisted optimization harnesses. The role requires deep expertise in Java internals, JVM memory management, and concurrency models to develop high-performance, thread-safe code. You will utilize tools such as flamegraphs, JMH, and Rally to identify regressions and implement hardware-aware optimizations for distributed systems. This position focuses on solving complex performance challenges within large-scale data stores and search engines, ensuring the platform remains scalable across both stateful and stateless architectures while mentoring others in a performance-first development culture.
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