Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine
Elastic
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This role pays less than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $156,437–$206,300 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $181k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
Elastic currently has 240 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $133,100–$210,600 across 91 roles with salary data.
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Senior Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team to develop core storage and query technologies for observability workloads. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing the core storage and query engine while leading architectural evolutions of components like indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization. You will work on improving storage efficiency, advancing ES|QL query processing, and optimizing data layouts for object storage to solve problems related to logs and metrics capabilities. The position requires expertise in Java, including concurrency primitives, and experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus. Candidates must demonstrate skills in building high-performance distributed systems, indexing time-series data, and utilizing AI tools to accelerate development and debug complex systems while ensuring high-quality code standards across the platform.
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