Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Confirmed live yesterday Low trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Posted
53 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $187k
$120k most similar roles pay here $247k

This listing doesn't post a salary. Most similar roles pay $165,650–$207,876.

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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Elastic

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team, you will join a globally distributed group focused on developing core storage and query technologies for observability workloads. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the core storage and query engine while leading architectural evolutions to resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization. Your daily work involves improving ES|QL query processing, optimizing data layouts for object storage, and mentoring others as a technical subject matter expert. The role requires advanced proficiency in Java, including concurrency primitives, and experience with technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus. You will solve complex problems related to indexing, storing, and querying time-series or logs data while utilizing AI tools to accelerate development and debug systems within a distributed team environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine components.
  • Resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
  • Improve ES|QL query processing and optimize data layouts for object storage.
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives to build and improve industry-leading observability solutions.
  • Act as a technical subject matter expert and mentor for the wider engineering organization.
  • Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests from the global community.
  • Write high-quality, idiomatic Java code for core system features.

What we're looking for

  • Write idiomatic modern Java code using concurrency primitives to design and optimize data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience implementing techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
  • Experience with one or more data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus.
  • Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug systems, and optimize code.
  • Ability to work autonomously in a distributed team using asynchronous and transparent communication.
  • Experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems (preferred).
  • Experience with open source projects and familiar with various source control workflows and CI (preferred).
  • Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Remote 53 days ago
Elasticsearch Java PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Solr Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms GitHub Object Storage prompt-engineering Open Source
Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Remote 53 days ago
Elasticsearch Java PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Solr Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms GitHub Open Source Object Storage prompt-engineering
Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Remote 53 days ago
Elasticsearch Java PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Solr Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms GitHub Open Source Object Storage prompt-engineering
Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Remote 53 days ago
Elasticsearch Java PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Solr Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms GitHub Open Source Object Storage prompt-engineering
Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Remote 53 days ago
Elasticsearch Java PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Solr Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms GitHub Open Source Object Storage prompt-engineering
Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine

Elastic

Remote 53 days ago $133,100$210,600
Elasticsearch Java PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Solr Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms GitHub Open Source Object Storage prompt-engineering
Remote