8 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to large-scale projects that evolve 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.
- Solve complex performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues.
- Improve the operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
- Collaborate with Elasticsearch engineers, users, and open-source projects.
- Support support engineers with difficult technical problems.
- Own operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.
- Lead cross-team projects and drive technical design from inception through delivery.
Requirements
- Strong core Java skills, including the standard library, data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Experience with low-level Java, including concurrency, parallelism, and classloaders.
- Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
- Experience designing APIs and reasoning through technical tradeoffs.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices, including Buildkite and Argo CD.
- Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
- Ability to own projects end-to-end, including technical design and collaboration.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, work autonomously, and operate effectively in a distributed team.
- Preferred knowledge of JDK internals, Java modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, and caching techniques.
- Preferred experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry.
- Preferred knowledge of Go, containers, Kubernetes, Gradle, Maven, and platform or developer productivity teams.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $133,100—$210,600 USD, with an alternate range of $159,900—$252,900 USD for select locations.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Distributed work with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation days and at least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Up to $2,000 in matching for financial donations and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
Tech Stack
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.