Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch
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$133,100–$210,600
Jul 19, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on the core platform infrastructure of Elasticsearch, covering shared services, settings, scripting, logging, telemetry, and CI/CD workflows. Day-to-day work involves building scalable APIs and features, improving developer productivity through automation and agentic tooling, resolving performance and concurrency issues, and owning operational investigations. Suits a strong Java engineer with cross-team project leadership experience and hands-on CI/CD background.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $133,100–$210,600
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,350 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 820–2,450
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists two salary bands: a general US range of $133,100–$210,600 and a higher range of $159,900–$252,900 for select metros (Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco Bay Area CA, and New York City Metro Area). The general range is captured in the compensation fields.
Buildkite and Argo CD are listed together as examples of CI/CD systems under the 'What You Bring' (required) section; they are treated as interchangeable named alternatives for the CI/CD gate.
OpenTelemetry, Go, Kubernetes, containers, Gradle/Maven, and GitOps all appear under the 'Bonus Points' section and are marked as preferred accordingly.
No minimum total years of experience is explicitly stated at the role level; the seniority assessment is based on scope (cross-team technical leadership, end-to-end project ownership, platform/infrastructure focus).
The role is distributed/remote; no single primary CBSA is specified, though select high-cost metros are called out for the alternate salary band.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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