11 hours ago
Portugal (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination while preserving system performance, safety, and liveness 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 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 core Java skills, including data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience understanding and 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 component development.
- Proven ability to use 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, or asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules with the ability to craft work calendars.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Donation matching of up to $2000 or local currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours per year 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.