10 hours ago
Portugal (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core components of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination systems while preserving safety, liveness, and performance as nodes and data change.
- Increase the supported scale of Elasticsearch across shards, nodes, and petabytes of data.
- Investigate and resolve performance, concurrency, and stability issues.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own operational investigations through successful resolution.
- Manage projects involving multiple engineers and collaborate across teams and codebases.
Requirements
- Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong core Java skills, including data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than only using off-the-shelf services.
- Experience building and debugging complex, broadly impactful features running across multiple machines.
- Ability to own projects from technical design through implementation with collaborators.
- Proven experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, transition between projects and codebases, and work autonomously in a distributed team.
- Bonus: experience with data stores, search, analytics, Lucene, the JDK, and asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation days.
- Matching donations up to $2,000 or local currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Distributed-company work environment.
About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.