Senior Software Engineer, Storage Engine
Elastic
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This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $165,650–$208,707 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $172k versus about $187k 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 Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team to develop core storage and query technologies for observability workloads. This role involves leading the architectural evolution of core components, identifying performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts and serialization formats, and optimizing data layouts for object storage. The engineer will also improve ES|QL query processing and manage logs and metrics capabilities. Key responsibilities include serving as a technical mentor, triaging issues from the global community, and ensuring high-quality code standards. Candidates must possess strong core Java skills, including deep knowledge of concurrency primitives, and experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus. The role focuses on solving complex problems related to indexing, storing, and querying time-series or logs data within a distributed system environment.
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