# Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Portugal
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €55,800-€88,300 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Job Title: Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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.

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.

You will be working on complex, highly distributed systems and will be responsible for building and debugging features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.

You will own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.

Bonus Points:

Data stores

Search, analytics, Lucene

Strong knowledge of the JDK

Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: €55,800-€88,300 EUR

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Distributed systems
- Consensus algorithms
- Core Java
- Standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs
- Newer language features
- Algorithms
- Data stores
- Search, analytics, Lucene
- Strong knowledge of the JDK
- Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

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