20 days ago
Switzerland (city not specified)Senior
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 as nodes join, leave, and data moves while preserving system safety and liveness.
- Increase the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can support.
- Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose solutions.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own operational investigations through successful resolution of performance or stability issues.
- Design and deliver components end to end while collaborating across teams and codebases.
Requirements
- Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong core Java skills, including data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
- Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
- Experience understanding and working on complex, highly distributed systems rather than relying on off-the-shelf services.
- Ability to build and debug broad-impact features running across multiple machines.
- Ability to own projects from technical design through delivery.
- Proven experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining final ownership.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and transition between projects, codebases, and teams.
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions 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
- Competitive pay based on the work performed, with no stated amount.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation days.
- Donation matching up to $2,000 or local currency equivalent.
- 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.