This role pays more than
50%
of similar roles. Most pay
$144,350–$212,875
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$172k
versus about
$179k
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.
Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch team to build and maintain foundational infrastructure and shared platform functionalities. This role focuses on ensuring that core services, settings, scripting via Painless, and observability features remain performant, secure, and easy to use. You will design horizontally-scalable APIs, resolve complex concurrency issues, and improve cloud system operations while integrating agentic apps into development workflows. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Java, including the standard library, concurrency constructs, and low-level concepts like classloaders and memory models. Required skills include proficiency in algorithms, data structures, and CI/CD systems such as Buildkite and Argo CD. You will also leverage AI to optimize code and debug complex systems while collaborating across teams to solve technical challenges within the core infrastructure of the Elasticsearch platform.