3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components and resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
- Lead cross-organizational initiatives for observability solutions and work with engineers on Elasticsearch logs and metrics capabilities.
- Drive operational and system improvements, coding standards, and architectural clarity across the platform.
- Act as a subject matter expert and trusted technical advisor while mentoring the broader engineering organization.
- Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests with global teams and domain experts.
- Write idiomatic modern Java for Elasticsearch.
Requirements
- Strong core Java skills, including deep knowledge of concurrency primitives, data structures, and algorithms.
- Proven experience designing high-performance, scalable database or search engine technologies.
- Experience implementing efficient indexing, storage, and querying techniques for time-series or logs data.
- Experience with one or more data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives across organizations, drive decisions autonomously, and collaborate across teams and codebases.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while validating results with sound engineering judgment.
- Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical discussion skills.
- Preferred experience building with Elasticsearch, contributing to open source projects, working with data storage technology, leading cross-functional initiatives, or developing databases, search engines, operating systems, or cloud services.
Benefits
- Fully remote and globally distributed work arrangement
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations
- Generous vacation days
- Up to $2,000 matching for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours of paid volunteer time annually
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave
- Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
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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.