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$172k
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$185k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
JOB TITLE: Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch
The Senior Java Engineer joins the Elasticsearch team to develop foundational infrastructure and shared platform functionalities. This role focuses on ensuring the core system remains performant, maintainable, and secure while making it extensible through plugins and the Painless scripting language. You will design horizontally-scalable features, APIs, and CI/CD workflows while solving complex concurrency and performance issues. Key responsibilities include improving observability, automating development workflows with agentic apps, and leading cross-team projects. Required skills include proficiency in core Java, including low-level concurrency, parallelism, and classloaders, alongside experience with algorithms, data structures, and CI/CD tools like Buildkite and Argo CD. You will work on the underlying infrastructure that supports Elasticsearch across serverless, cloud, and on-premise environments to solve critical stability and scalability problems.