Elasticsearch - Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems

Elastic

105d • $133,100 - $210,600

About The Position

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.

Requirements

• A strong 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 features like lambdas.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and collaboration with others to develop needed components.
• Demonstrated ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with data stores.
• Knowledge of search, analytics, and Lucene.
• Strong knowledge of the JDK.
• Familiarity with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

Responsibilities

• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining 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.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
• Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

Benefits

• 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.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees