# Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch at Elastic

- Company: Elastic
- What the company does: Power insights and outcomes with The Elasticsearch Platform. See into your data and find answers that matter with enterprise solutions designed to help you accelerate time to insight. Try Elastic toda... Backed by NEA and Amplify.
- Company website: https://www.elastic.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs?gh_jid=8119450&gh_jid=8119450
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elastic-senior-software-engineer-performance-tuning-elasticsearch/

## About 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 initiatives through high-quality code and technical analysis. Your goal is to help improve the optimization and predictability of Elasticsearch performance, collaborating with area-specific teams to enhance our software.

## What they're looking for

- You have a solid comprehension of distributed systems architecture, including partition tolerance, cluster state propagation, and scaling challenges in large-scale data stores
- You have a proven track record of using AI or advanced tooling to accelerate optimization, debug complex performance issues, and automate benchmarking workflows
- You possess the ability to collaborate effectively within a team environment, contributing to the success of performance engineering goals
- You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
- You can work autonomously, drive decisions, and result in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication

Tags: Platform - Elasticsearch