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 / Beneficioscompetitive payhealth coverage for you and familyflexible locations and schedulesgenerous vacation daysdonation matching up to 2000volunteer hours (up to 40 per year) ResponsabilidadesLead architectural evolution of core storage engine components, addressing indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource use for performanceDrive cross-organizational initiatives to build industry-leading observability solutionsContribute to logs and metrics capabilities within a globally distributed teamImprove operational practices and clean-code standards to simplify complex system behaviorServe as a subject matter expert (SME)



and mentor the wider engineering organizationCollaborate across teams to triage, review issues and pull requests with domain experts Requisitos principalesProven track record building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systemsStrong core Java skills with deep understanding of concurrency and data structuresExperience with data storage technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prometheus) and how they workAbility to operate autonomously in a distributed team and drive decisionsExperience using AI to accelerate development and debugging, with a prudent engineering approachFamiliarity with prompt-engineering and evaluating AI outputs in software engineeringExperience indexing, storing, and querying time-series or logs dataExcellent communication and collaboration across distributed teamscollaboration across functions and teamsautonomous decision-making in distributed teamsclear and respectful communicationJava (advanced), concurrency primitivesstorage engine design and optimizationtime-series/log indexing and querying

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid