2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core distributed-systems components for the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination while preserving system safety, liveness, performance, and resilience as nodes and data change.
- Increase the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can support.
- 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 while coordinating with multiple engineers.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong core Java skills, including Java standard-library data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep 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 collaborate across functions, teams, projects, and codebases.
- Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team through asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
- 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.
- Distributed work model with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Employer matching of up to $2000 or local-currency equivalent for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours of paid time each year for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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.