Description
We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer I to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. As a key member of this team, you will focus on improving Elasticsearch's components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines. You will maintain our cluster coordination system to ensure high performance even when nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole. You will also push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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.
To succeed in this role, you will need a strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms. You should have strong skills in core Java and be conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features. You should also have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms and have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.