Senior Java Engineer

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find answers in real time using all their data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together search and AI. Elastic's cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch team, focusing on shared platform functionalities that are easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure. The team owns common functionality such as services, settings, and scripting, and makes Elasticsearch extensible through plugins or the Painless scripting language. The team also makes Elasticsearch observable by providing logging and telemetry, and owns orchestration in serverless, CI/CD workflows, and delivery to customers.

• Contribute to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
• Make Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying automation opportunities and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.
• Design and implement new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Solve difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and propose solutions.
• Improve operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
• Collaborate in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other open source projects.
• Support support engineers with harder problems and own operational investigations end-to-end.

• Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Strong skills in core Java, conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
• Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
• 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.
• Work autonomously in a distributed team with asynchronous communication.

• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching.
• Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of Go.
• Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven), with preference for Gradle.
• Experience in a platform team or developer productivity team.

Base salary only, no variable component. Typical starting salary range: €55,800—€88,300 EUR.

• Competitive pay based on work, not previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous vacation days each year.
• Up to $2000 match for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.
• Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave.

Apply via the provided link.