Overview Senior Software Engineer in the Elasticsearch Performance team, focused on optimizing and predicting Elasticsearch performance at scale. You will drive core performance initiatives from design to production, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful optimizations. You’ll build performance models, benchmark methodologies, and AI-assisted tooling to streamline profiling and benchmarking. This role offers a chance to shape performance and reliability across distributed systems in a leading AI-powered search platform. Compensaciones / Beneficios * health coverage for you and family * adaptable locations and schedules * generous vacation days * donation matching up to $2000 * volunteer hours * parental leave (16+ weeks) Responsabilidades * Contribute to core performance engineering initiatives from development to production * Design and implement architectural and code-level performance improvements * Develop performance models and methodologies for distributed systems * Support optimization strategies for performance, predictability,



and scalability * Profile and analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks (logging, metrics, vector search, ES|QL) * Ensure robust benchmarks and regression detection for both stateful and serverless architectures * Contribute to automation with AI-assisted optimization harnesses for profiling and benchmarking * Provide technical guidance and peer reviews to engineers Requisitos principales * Deep knowledge of Java internals and JVM memory management * Concurrency models understanding * High-performance, thread-safe, lock-free coding experience * Experience profiling and optimizing distributed systems * Benchmarking tool experience (e.g., JMH, Rally) and identifying regressions * Understanding of distributed systems architecture and scaling in large data stores * Experience using AI or advanced tooling to accelerate optimization and automate benchmarking * Ability to collaborate across teams and work autonom

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Islas Baleares)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Islas Baleares