# Principal Software Developer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Canada, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,300-$203,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are on the lookout for a Principal Software Developer I 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.

We are looking for someone with a strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms, strong skills in core Java, and a deep technical proficiency in algorithms. You should have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, and be able to own projects from beginning to end. Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers is a plus.

Bonus points for data stores, search, analytics, Lucene, strong knowledge of the JDK, and asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

This role has a base salary with a typical starting salary range of $128,300-$203,000 CAD. The role is eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program and has a range of other benefits, including competitive pay, health coverage, flexible locations and schedules, generous vacation days, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- consensus algorithms
- core Java
- algorithms
- data stores
- search
- analytics
- Lucene
- JDK
- Netty

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