10 hours ago
Norway (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch support for concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination as nodes join, leave, and move data while preserving system safety and liveness.
- Increase the scale of Elasticsearch across shards, nodes, and petabytes of data.
- Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose effective solutions.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own operational investigations through successful resolution of performance or stability issues.
- Own projects end to end, including technical design and collaboration with other engineers.
- Manage projects involving multiple engineers.
Requirements
- Deep expertise 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 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 on component development.
- Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and move between projects, codebases, or teams as priorities change.
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed, asynchronous, direct, and transparent work environment.
- 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 with the ability to craft your calendar for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Matching donations and service contributions 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 with an emphasis on inclusion and accessibility.
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.