7 days ago
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination while preserving system safety, liveness, and performance as nodes and data move.
- Increase the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can support.
- 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 Java data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience 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 collaboration.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, work across projects and codebases, and drive decisions 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 with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Up to 2,000 USD or local-currency equivalent matched for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Distributed-company work environment with flexible scheduling.
About Elastic
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.