Overview As a Senior Software Engineer in the Elasticsearch storage team, you architect and optimize the core storage and query engine to boost performance at scale. You collaborate across a distributed, globally distributed team to advance observability workloads and data layouts for object storage. You mentor peers, drive architectural clarity, and apply best practices to deliver high-quality, scalable software. This role combines deep systems work with strategic initiatives to elevate Elasticsearch capabilities. Compensaciones / Beneficios * competitive pay * health coverage for you and family * versátil locations and schedules * generous vacation days * donation matching up to 2000 * volunteer hours (up to 40 per year) Responsabilidades * Lead architectural evolution of core storage engine components, addressing indexing layouts, serialization formats,
and resource use for performance * Drive cross-organizational initiatives to build industry-leading observability solutions * Contribute to logs and metrics capabilities within a globally distributed team * Improve operational practices and clean-code standards to simplify complex system behavior * Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) and mentor the wider engineering organization * Collaborate across teams to triage, review issues and pull requests with domain experts Requisitos principales * Proven track record building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems * Strong core Java skills with deep understanding of concurrency and data structures * Experience with data storage technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prometheus) and how they work * Ability to operate autonomously in a distributed team and drive decisions * Experience using AI to accelerate development and debugging, with a prudent engineering approach * Familiarity with prompt-engineering and evaluating AI outputs in software engineering * Experience indexing, storing, and querying time-series or log