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 / 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 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 logs data

Excellent communication and collaboration across distributed teams collaboration across functions and teams autonomous decision-making in distributed teams clear and respectful communication

Java (advanced), concurrency primitives storage engine design and optimization time-series/log indexing and querying

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Santa Cruz de Tenerife