Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

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.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering.

Responsibilities:

• Design, 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.
• Push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Investigate and propose solutions for various issues, including performance or concurrency issues.
• Support our support engineers with complex 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 familiarity with the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building and debugging complex features with a broad impact.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and optimise code.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams.

Nice to Have:

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

Benefits:

• Competitive pay based on the work you do.
• Health coverage for you and your family.
• Flexible locations and schedules.
• Generous number of vacation days.
• Matching of financial donations and service up to $2000.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: €67,000 - €106,000 EUR