10 hours ago
Romania (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination while preserving system safety, liveness, and performance as nodes and data change.
- Scale Elasticsearch across increasing numbers of shards, nodes, and petabytes.
- Investigate and resolve performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues end to end.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own projects from technical design through implementation and collaborate with multiple engineers.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong core Java skills, including data structures, concurrency constructs, standard library capabilities, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than only using off-the-shelf services.
- Experience building and debugging complex, broadly impactful features running across multiple machines.
- Ability to own projects from beginning to end and work across teams, projects, and codebases.
- Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
- Proven experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions 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 with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Elastic matches up to $2000, 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-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.