Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need 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 the precision of search and the intelligence of AI. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering.

• Leveraging distributed systems expertise to build and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high while nodes come and go and data moves around, maintaining safety and liveness properties.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigating performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions.
• Supporting support engineers with harder problems.
• Owning operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java, conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, rather than using off-the-shelf services.
• Ability to build and debug features with broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration.
• 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.
• Ability to work autonomously, drive decisions and results 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

Compensation is in the form of base salary; no variable component. Typical starting salary range: $133,100—$210,600 USD. In select locations (Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco Bay Area CA, New York City Metro Area): $159,900—$252,900 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.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws. Export controls may apply for certain countries. For accommodation requests, email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co.