Senior Software Developer, Elastic
Storage Engine
CA$128.3-203k
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Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
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Open source platform powering search, observability, security, and more
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$128.3-203k
This role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help turn endless data possibilities into real results with the power of Search AI.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong core Java skills and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs
- You have an excellent understanding of concurrent and parallel programming principles
- You have an excellent background in applied data processing (data structures, algorithms)
- You are familiar with storage systems and low-level abstractions in OS
- You work with a high level of autonomy and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components
- You have solid software engineering foundations, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions
- You're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code, approaches, and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software
- You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, and have some idea how they work and why they work that way
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too
Desirable
- You've built things with Elasticsearch before
- You’ve worked on data storage technology
- You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
- You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
- You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Software Developer to join the team that’s contributing to improving our storage efficiency for metrics, logs, and other types of data, advancing our ES|QL solution to query such data, as well as optimizing the storage layout for object storage
- As a software engineer in the team, you will work on different initiatives, such as enhancing current logging solutions to ensure that logging data is always accepted and persisted, advancing our current metrics processing capabilities to ensure massive and seamless adoption by our customers, and improving storage efficiency across the board
- You’ll also be extending the logic for efficiently querying and aggregating the stored data, taking their storage layout and ordering into account
- You’ll work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on data storage mechanisms and query capabilities of Elasticsearch
- You'll be an expert in the storage engine area, and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about it. You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts
- You'll be a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, building data-intensive new features, fixing intriguing bugs, and increasing the testing coverage, all while making the code easier to understand
- You will design and implement advanced algorithms and data structures, often working at the system and hardware level. You’ll also engage with our global community for triaging and resolving issues and pull requests
- You'll write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
Our take
Organizations are dealing with exploding data volumes increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and the growing expectation tha ttechnology should help act on problems, not just report them. Ai is moving from experimentation into real operations, especially in security and observability where speed and context are critical. So now, both enterprises and governments are looking for simpler, shared platforms that sale easily and reduce complexity rather than add to it.
And Elastic sits at the intersection of these needs with its Search AI Platform that helps organizations turn large amounts of structured and unstructured data into clear insights and actiontions across search, security, and observability. Elastic's strength lies in its open, flexible approach, which breaks down data silos and provides a context people and AI systems need to make daster, better decisions. The goal is straightforward: help teams see what's happening, understand it quickly, and respond confidently.
Recently, the company worked with CISA to deliver a unified, cloud-based SIEM for US federal agencies, this highlights strong trust in Elastic's security and scalability. Alongside this, its AWS Agentic AI Specialization also reflects leadership in making autonomous AI system practical and reliable. Together, these milestones position Elastic well for the future, as organizations increasingly rely on shared platforms and intelligent systems to manage ris, complexity, and growth.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ashutosh Kulkarni
(CEO)Ashutosh joined Elastic in 2021 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2022. Prior to this, he was an EVP and CPO of Enterprise at McAfee, a Senior VP and GM of Web Performance and Web Security at Akamai Technologies, and a Senior VP and GM of Informatica Cloud at Informatica.
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Shay co-founded Elastic in 2012 and has served as the CTO since.
Navam Welihinda
(CFO)Prior to joining Elastic in 2025, Navam was the CFO at Grammarly. He also spent nearly 8 years at HashiCorp as VP of Finance and CFO and was the Head of Finance, Compose at IBM for 1 year.
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