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This role pays less than
65%
of similar roles. Most pay
$152,955–$206,300
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$172k
versus about
$180k
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
52 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 52 roles with salary data.
The Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch Performance team to improve the optimization and predictability of the search engine. This role involves contributing to core performance engineering initiatives, executing technical designs for architectural improvements, and implementing foundational performance models for complex distributed systems. You will profile and analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL while building AI-assisted optimization harnesses. Key requirements include deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, and concurrency models to write high-performance, thread-safe, and lock-free code. You must possess experience with benchmarking tools like JMH and Rally, distributed systems architecture, and hardware-aware optimizations. The work focuses on ensuring Elasticsearch remains performant and scalable across diverse environments and stateless serverless architectures.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.