Senior Java Software Engineer - Search Inference - Platform

About the Position

Senior Java Software Engineer - Search Inference - Platform

Elastic, the Search AI Company, empowers everyone to find answers in real-time using all their data at scale. We bring together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By leveraging all structured and unstructured data, Elastic’s cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, including schema negotiation, streaming (SSE), and error normalization
• Contribute to the inference plugin's internal architecture: task settings, chunking strategies, rate limiting, and provider-level configuration
• Review open source contributions to the codebase and work with third-party engineers to ensure their contributions meet our technology standards
• Participate in on-call rotation for inference-related incidents
• Write thorough tests: unit tests using ESTestCase, YAML-based REST integration tests, and rolling-upgrade tests

Requirements

• 5+ years of production Java experience, with experience contributing to a large, established Java codebase. You know core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
• Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc.
• 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

• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc.
• Experience with ML systems
• Contributions to and ownership of open source projects
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc), with a strong preference for Gradle experience.
• Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team

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

About the Company

Elastic is a distributed company where diversity drives our identity. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and believe in taking care of our people. We are an equal opportunity employer and are 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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