Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch
Elastic · Platform - Elasticsearch
- Location
- United States
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $133K–$211K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings…
What is The Role
Elasticsearch powers search, observability, and AI retrieval (RAG) for the world's largest organizations. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Performance team. In this role, you will contribute to performance engineering…
What You Will Be Doing
Contributing to core performance engineering initiatives from development to production, focusing on the delivery of impactful optimizations. Executing technical designs and plans for architectural and code-level performance improvements. Implementing…
What You Bring
You have deep knowledge of Java internals and JVM memory management. You understand how concurrency models work. You can write code that is high-performance, thread-safe, and lock-free. This experience includes working with large open-source and enterprise…
Bonus Points
Experience integrating high-performance native libraries (e.g., C++, Rust, SIMD-accelerated code) into Java applications. Deep knowledge of modern storage engine performance, index modes, or vector search optimizations. Experience defining and managing…
Bonus Points
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total…
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As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if…
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