OverviewSenior 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 / Beneficioshealth coverage for you and family versátil locations and schedules generous vacation days donation matching up to $****

volunteer hours parental leave (16+ weeks)

ResponsabilidadesContribute 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 principalesDeep 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 autonomously in a distributed setup team collaboration autonomous working style clear communication

Java internals

JVM memory management concurrency and lock-free programming

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch - Elastic (Valladolid)
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