Senior Software Engineer - Timeseries - Elasticsearch

Elastic

8h • Remote

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're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team that’s contributing to improving our storage efficiency for metrics, logs, and other types of data, advancing our ES|QL solution to query such data, as well as optimizing the storage layout for object storage.
As a software engineer in the team, you will work on different initiatives, such as enhancing current logging solutions to ensure that logging data is always accepted and persisted, advancing our current metrics processing capabilities to ensure massive and seamless adoption by our customers, and improving storage efficiency across the board. You’ll also be extending the logic for efficiently querying and aggregating the stored data, taking their storage layout and ordering into account.
Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable, intuitive, and high-quality software. We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements.

Requirements

• Strong core Java skills and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Excellent understanding of concurrent and parallel programming principles.
• Excellent background in applied data processing (data structures, algorithms).
• Familiarity with storage systems and low-level abstractions in OS.
• Work with a high level of autonomy and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.
• Solid software engineering foundations, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions.
• Comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code, approaches, and APIs is hard!
• Have used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too.

Nice To Haves

• Collaborated over the internet because that's harder.
• Asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software.
• Built things with Elasticsearch before.
• Worked on data storage technology.
• Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.
• Worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
• Past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development.

Responsibilities

• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on data storage mechanisms and query capabilities of Elasticsearch.
• Be an expert in the storage engine area, and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about it. Improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts.
• Be a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, building data-intensive new features, fixing intriguing bugs, and increasing the testing coverage, all while making the code easier to understand.
• Design and implement advanced algorithms and data structures, often working at the system and hardware level.
• Engage with our global community for triaging and resolving issues and pull requests.
• Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

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
• Company-matched donations 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
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• Stock program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed