Principal Software Developer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch

Job summary

Lead architectural and code-level performance engineering initiatives to optimize Elasticsearch performance and predictability. Develop foundational performance models, drive automation for benchmarking, and mentor other engineers to foster a performance-aware development culture.

Job details

Lead architectural and code-level performance engineering initiatives to optimize Elasticsearch performance and predictability. Develop foundational performance models, drive automation for benchmarking, and mentor other engineers to foster a performance-aware development culture. Requires deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, and distributed systems architecture. Proven experience in profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing large-scale enterprise codebases is essential.

What you’ll do

Lead architectural and code-level performance engineering initiatives to optimize Elasticsearch performance and predictability. Develop foundational performance models, drive automation for benchmarking, and mentor other engineers to foster a performance-aware development culture.

Requirements

Requires deep knowledge of Java internals, JVM memory management, and distributed systems architecture. Proven experience in profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing large-scale enterprise codebases is essential.

Benefits

• Stock program
• Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan
• Health coverage
• Flexible schedules
• Paid vacation
• Donation matching
• Volunteer time off
• Parental leave

Listed skills

• Java · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Java
• JVM memory management
• Concurrency models
• Performance engineering
• Distributed systems
• Profiling
• Benchmarking
• JMH
• Flamegraphs
• Rally
• Vector search
• Elasticsearch
• System architecture
• Automation
• Mentoring

Job areas

• Software
• Technology
• Engineering
• Data & Analytics

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