3 months ago
Spain (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own performance engineering initiatives from architecture through production and lead major architectural and code-level optimizations
- Develop performance models and methodologies for complex distributed systems
- Drive optimization strategies that improve Elasticsearch performance, predictability, and scalability
- Profile and analyze logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL to identify bottlenecks
- Build robust benchmarks and regression detection for stateful and stateless Serverless architectures
- Collaborate across the company to embed performance-focused practices into feature development
- Design and build AI-assisted optimization harnesses for profiling, hypothesis testing, and benchmarking
- Mentor and coach engineers while promoting technical excellence and performance-aware development
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, concurrency models, thread-safe code, and lock-free programming
- Proven experience profiling and optimizing distributed systems using benchmarking tools such as flamegraphs, JMH, and Rally
- Strong understanding of distributed-systems architecture, partition tolerance, cluster state propagation, and large-scale data-store scaling
- Experience using AI or advanced tooling to accelerate optimization, debug performance issues, and automate benchmarking workflows
- Ability to collaborate across functions, move between projects and codebases, work autonomously, and drive decisions in a distributed team
- Experience integrating high-performance native libraries such as C++ or Rust and SIMD-accelerated code is a bonus
- Knowledge of storage-engine performance, index modes, vector-search optimization, Performance SLAs, or search-engine and data-store internals is a bonus
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on the work performed rather than previous salary
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations
- Flexible locations and schedules
- Generous vacation allowance
- Up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent in matching for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave
- Distributed work environment
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.