11 hours ago
Romania (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination as nodes join, leave, and move data while preserving system safety and liveness.
- Scale Elasticsearch to support more 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 and codebases.
Requirements
- Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong core Java skills, including standard-library data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience working on complex distributed systems rather than relying only on off-the-shelf services.
- Ability to build and debug broad-impact 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 retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, transition between projects or 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
- Base-salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules with the ability to craft your calendar.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000, or local currency equivalent, for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Distributed work environment with flexible working arrangements.
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.