8 days ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Contribute to large projects evolving the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
- Design and implement horizontally scalable Elasticsearch features and APIs.
- Identify and develop automation opportunities to improve developer productivity, including integrating agentic applications into development workflows.
- Diagnose and resolve difficult performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues.
- Improve the operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
- Collaborate with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic users, and open source projects.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own operational investigations end to end until performance or stability issues are resolved.
- Lead cross-team projects and communicate technical concepts across collaborators.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience designing APIs and reasoning through technical tradeoffs.
- Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
- Strong core Java skills, including the Java standard library, concurrency constructs, parallelism, and low-level Java concepts such as classloaders.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices, including Buildkite, Argo CD, or GitOps.
- Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
- Ability to own projects from technical design through implementation and collaboration.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaborate across functions, teams, projects, and codebases.
- Bonus experience with JDK internals, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching, observability and telemetry, OpenTelemetry, Go, containers, Kubernetes, Gradle, Maven, or platform and developer productivity teams.
Benefits
- Distributed work with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation days.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000 or local currency equivalent for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Inclusive culture and equal employment opportunity commitments.
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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.