Senior/Principal Engineer – OpenSearch
DTEX Systems1 month ago
Fremont, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$170k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and optimization of large-scale OpenSearch clusters containing terabytes of data.
- Design and implement features, enhancements, and bug fixes for DTEX’s Insider Risk Management and AI Risk Management products.
- Manage and fine-tune cloud-hosted OpenSearch environments, including shard, replica, JVM, memory, and garbage collection settings.
- Develop and tune ingestion pipelines, field mappings, cluster integrity, search, and aggregation performance.
- Serve as a consultant, advisor, and mentor to internal and external search practitioners.
- Attend client and internal meetings to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Contribute to the OpenSearch community, public forums, and upstream open-source projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and global open-source contributors while rapidly iterating on high-quality solutions.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Deep expertise in OpenSearch internals and managing terabytes of data across multiple nodes.
- Experience migrating large-scale Elasticsearch 6.x clustered deployments to OpenSearch 2.x or above.
- Strong knowledge of ingestion pipelines, field mappings, cluster integrity, search and aggregation tuning, index lifecycle management, sharding, JVM configuration, garbage collection, and shard and replica allocation.
- Strong proficiency in Python and a good understanding of JVM ecosystems.
- Understanding of algorithms, data structures, software design principles, and distributed, high-throughput, concurrent applications.
- Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Ability to debug complex issues and engage with upstream open-source communities.
Benefits
- Hybrid or remote work environment.
- Competitive compensation, equity participation, health and wellness benefits, and generous time-off policies.
- Opportunities for continuous professional development in a values-driven, collaborative environment.
About DTEX Systems
DTEX Systems builds an insider risk and data protection platform that unifies user activity telemetry, data loss prevention, and behavioral analytics for enterprises and government agencies. It helps detect and mitigate malicious and negligent data misuse, supports compliance, and delivers privacy-aware workforce monitoring via subscription software and services. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Saratoga, California, the company is privately held.