11 hours ago
Ireland (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination systems while preserving safety, liveness, and performance as nodes and data move.
- Increase the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can support.
- Investigate and resolve performance, concurrency, and stability issues end to end.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own projects from technical design through implementation and collaborate across teams.
Requirements
- Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong proficiency in core Java, the Java standard library, data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience working on complex, highly distributed systems rather than relying on off-the-shelf services.
- Ability to build and debug broadly impactful features running across multiple machines.
- Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and cross-functional development.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of 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, or asynchronous event-driven frameworks such as Netty.
Benefits
- Base salary range of €85.600—€135.500 EUR with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules in a distributed company.
- Generous vacation days.
- Matching donations up to $2000 or local currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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.