Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Norway
Workplace: RemoteFull timeNOK 791,300 - 1,251,700Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Mentorship","Autonomy"]

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch’s core storage and query engine for observability workloads. You’ll lead the architectural evolution of storage engine components, improve indexing layouts and serialization formats, and tackle performance bottlenecks. Working with a globally distributed remote team, you’ll drive cross-functional observability initiatives, serve as an SME/mentor, and write idiomatic modern Java to improve storage efficiency and ES|QL query execution.

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Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch’s core storage and query engine for observability workloads. You’ll lead the architectural evolution of storage engine components, improve indexing layouts and serialization formats, and tackle performance bottlenecks. Working with a globally distributed remote team, you’ll drive cross-functional observability initiatives, serve as an SME/mentor, and write idiomatic modern Java to improve storage efficiency and ES|QL query execution.
Location: Norway
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and optimize Elasticsearch’s core storage and query engine, improving storage efficiency and ES|QL query processing and performance.
  • •Lead the architectural evolution of storage engine components and resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
  • •Drive cross-organizational initiatives to build industry-leading observability solutions in collaboration with the logs and metrics teams.
  • •Introduce best practices for clean coding standards and untangle complex system behaviors to bring architectural clarity.
  • •Serve as an SME by triaging, resolving, and reviewing issues and pull requests, and mentoring the wider engineering organization.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: NOK 791,300 - 1,251,700
Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeavePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience building high-performance, scalable database/search/distributed systems with a focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization.
  • •Strong core Java skills, including deep understanding of concurrency primitives and ability to design/optimize data structures and algorithms.
  • •Proven track record using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
  • •Ability to design and apply techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
  • •Experience with one or more data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus.
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationMentorshipAutonomy
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaElasticsearchES|QLSolrPostgreSQLMongoDBPrometheusObject storageIndexingSerializationGitHubZoomSlackAI agentsPrompt engineering

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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