3 months ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to performance engineering initiatives from development through production and deliver impactful optimizations.
- Execute technical designs and plans for architectural and code-level performance improvements.
- Implement performance models and methodologies for complex distributed systems.
- Profile and analyze system behavior to identify bottlenecks in logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL.
- Build robust performance benchmarks and regression detection for stateful and Serverless architectures.
- Apply performance-focused development practices to new features in collaboration with other teams.
- Build AI-assisted optimization harnesses for profiling, hypothesis testing, and benchmarking.
- Provide technical guidance and conduct peer reviews for other engineers.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, concurrency models, and high-performance, thread-safe, lock-free code.
- Experience working with large open-source and enterprise codebases.
- Proven experience profiling and optimizing distributed systems, including benchmarking with JMH or Rally.
- Ability to identify performance regressions and implement algorithmic or hardware-aware optimizations.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, partition tolerance, cluster state propagation, and scaling challenges in large-scale data stores.
- Experience using AI or advanced tooling to accelerate optimization, debug complex performance issues, and automate benchmarking workflows.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, work autonomously, drive decisions, and operate effectively in a distributed environment.
- Experience integrating high-performance native libraries such as C++ or Rust, including SIMD-accelerated code, into Java applications is a bonus.
- Knowledge of storage engine performance, index modes, vector search optimization, Performance SLAs, or the internals of a large-scale data store or search engine is a bonus.
Benefits
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles as a distributed company.
- Generous vacation days.
- Up to $2,000 matching for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic's stock program.
About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.