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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 optimization strategies, developing foundational performance models for complex distributed systems, and identifying bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL. Your daily work involves profiling system behavior, ensuring robust benchmarks for stateful and stateless architectures, and building AI-assisted optimization harnesses to automate benchmarking workflows. The role requires deep expertise in Java internals, JVM memory management, concurrency models, and high-performance, thread-safe code. You will utilize tools like flamegraphs, JMH, and Rally while leveraging advanced tooling to solve scalability challenges in large-scale data stores. This position focuses on ensuring the performance and predictability of search, observability, and AI retrieval systems for enterprise-scale infrastructure.
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