Description
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.
Responsibilities
- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on data storage mechanisms and query capabilities of Elasticsearch.
- Improve storage engine 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.
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.
- 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!
- Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for 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.
Bonus Points
- You've built things with Elasticsearch before.
- You’ve worked on data storage technology.
- You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.
- You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
- You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development.
Compensation
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 new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
The typical starting salary range for this role is:
$133,100-$210,600 USD
The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:
$159,900-$252,900 USD