Job Description
Elasticsearch - Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. 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 to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud‑based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What Is The Role:
We are on the lookout for a
Senior Software Engineer
to join our
Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team
and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.
What You Will Be Doing:
Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even while nodes join and leave the cluster and data move 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.
Investigating all kinds of performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions.
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
What You Bring:
A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
Strong skills in core Java and fluency in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
A deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
A proven ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
The ability to build and debug features with broad impact, running on multiple machines.
The capacity to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and collaboration with others to develop needed components.
Bonus Points:
Search, analytics, Lucene
Strong knowledge of the JDK
Asynchronous event‑driven network frameworks such as Netty
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. Elastic offers a base salary range of $133,100 - $210,600 USD (or $159,900 - $252,900 USD in select locations such as Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City). Employees may also participate in Elastic’s stock program and a company‑matched 401(k) with dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
Elastic is an equal‑opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all. To request an accommodation, please email
candidate_accessibility@elastic.co .
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