3 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural evolution of Elasticsearch core storage engine components.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
- Drive cross-organizational initiatives for observability solutions involving logs and metrics.
- Improve operational practices, code quality, system clarity, and platform architecture.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor across the engineering organization.
- Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests with global engineering teams.
- Write idiomatic modern Java for Elasticsearch.
Requirements
- Experience implementing novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or log data.
- Experience with one or more storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus.
- Strong core Java skills, including deep knowledge of concurrency primitives, data structures, and algorithms.
- Proven ability to design and optimize efficient, high-performance systems.
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions in a globally distributed, asynchronous team.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development, debug systems, and optimize code while validating results with sound engineering judgment.
- Strong collaboration, communication, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
- Experience with database, search engine, operating system, or cloud service development is a bonus.
- Experience with open-source projects and source-control workflows or continuous integration is a bonus.
Benefits
- Fully remote, globally distributed work arrangement with flexible locations and schedules.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation days each year.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
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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.