Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

About the Position

Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic, the Search AI Company, empowers everyone to find answers in real-time using all their data at scale. Our Search AI Platform, used by over 50% of the Fortune 500, combines the precision of search and the intelligence of AI. By leveraging structured and unstructured data, our cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations realize the promise of AI.

Responsibilities

• Leverage your distributed systems expertise to build and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.
• Improve Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole.
• Push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Look into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and propose solutions.
• Support our support engineers with the harder problems.
• Own operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.

Requirements

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services.
• Ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
• Ability to work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

Nice to Have

• Data stores
• Search, analytics, Lucene
• Strong knowledge of the JDK
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

We Offer

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Salary

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$133,100-$210,600 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area) is:

$159,900-$252,900 USD

About the Company

At Elastic, diversity drives our identity. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and believe in taking care of our people. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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