Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of the Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges in how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes.

• Design, build, and operate core pieces of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination systems to keep performance high while nodes come and go, preserving safety and liveness properties.
• Push limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Support support engineers with harder problems and own operational investigations end-to-end.

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java, including standard library data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than using off-the-shelf services.
• Experience building and debugging complex features with broad impact running on multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects, codebases, or teams.
• Work autonomously in a distributed team using asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

• Data stores, search, analytics, Lucene.
• Strong knowledge of the JDK.
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

Base salary range: $159,800—$252,800 USD; in select locations (Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco Bay Area CA, New York City Metro Area): $191,900—$303,500 USD. Eligible for Elastic's stock program. Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings. Additional benefits include health coverage, flexible locations and schedules for many roles, generous vacation days, up to $2000 match for financial donations and service, up to 40 hours volunteer time, and minimum 16 weeks parental leave.

Apply via the provided job posting link.