As Principal Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch Performance team, you drive core performance improvements from architecture to production to ensure fast, scalable search and AI retrieval. You will lead design and execution of major optimizations, develop performance models for complex distributed systems, and embed performance as a first-class consideration in new features. You’ll benchmark, profile, and optimize across logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL, while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted optimization. This role offers impact at scale, shaping how Elasticsearch performs in diverse environments.
Compensaciones / Ventajas
- Competitive pay
- Health coverage for you and family
- Flexible locations and schedules
- Generous vacation days
- Donation matching up to 2000
- Volunteer hours (up to 40 per year)
Responsabilidades
- Own core performance initiatives end-to-end, from architecture to production deployment
- Lead technical design and execution for major architectural and code-level performance improvements
- Develop foundational performance models and methodologies for distributed systems
- Drive optimization strategies for performance, predictability, and scalability of Elasticsearch
- Profile and analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL
- Ensure robust performance benchmarks and regression detection for stateful and serverless architectures
- Collaborate across the company to embed performance-first thinking in new features
- Design and build AI-assisted optimization harnesses to streamline profiling, hypothesis testing, and benchmarking
- Mentor and coach engineers to foster technical excellence and performance-aware development
Requisitos principales
- Deep knowledge of Java internals and JVM memory management
- Strong understanding of concurrency models; ability to write high-performance, thread-safe, lock-free code
- Experience with large open-source and enterpris
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