Jobs at Elastic

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch core storage and query engine for observability workloads. Lead architecture, resolve performance bottlenecks, improve storage/indexing/query execution, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, collaborate with global community, and write idiomatic modern Java.

Design and improve Elasticsearch distributed-systems components for consistent, concurrent indexing and cluster coordination. Scale shards, nodes, and petabyte datasets, diagnose performance and concurrency issues, support operations/support teams, and own end-to-end projects including technical design and cross-team development.

Design, implement, and scale Elasticsearch distributed systems: improve concurrent indexing, maintain cluster coordination, optimize performance at petabyte scale, debug concurrency and performance issues, and lead cross-engineer projects.

Lead and contribute to Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities: define technical vision, research search/data-structure improvements, design and implement indexing, query execution, and relevance systems, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and drive large-scale search infrastructure projects.

Lead design and implementation of vector similarity search features in Elasticsearch. Improve performance and relevance, fix bugs, collaborate with distributed engineers and the OSS community, and write idiomatic modern Java.

Elastic is seeking engineers for their talent community across various regions. Candidates can join to be considered for future opportunities with a focus on AI, search, and cloud solutions.

Lead product development for logs and logs analytics within Elastic Observability. Drive end-to-end log collection, ingest, management, and features for SREs (GenAI integration, automated SLO/SLI, intelligent alerting, correlation of logs/metrics/traces). Collaborate with engineering, UX, sales, and marketing to prioritize roadmap, track engagement, and drive adoption and go-to-market activities.

Lead international tax provision and compliance for EMEA and APJ, manage external advisors, ensure SOX and statutory reporting, support tax projects (acquisitions, restructurings, Pillar 2, transfer pricing), research tax technical issues, mentor direct reports, and drive process improvements and automation.