12 hours ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination while nodes change and data moves across the cluster.
- Scale Elasticsearch across increasing numbers of shards, nodes, and petabytes.
- 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.
- Own projects end to end, including technical design and collaboration on implementation.
Requirements
- Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
- Strong core Java skills, including standard-library 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 broadly impactful features running across multiple machines.
- Ability to own projects from technical design through delivery.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining final ownership.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects, codebases, or teams as priorities change.
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team.
- Bonus: experience with data stores, search, analytics, Lucene, the JDK, or asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.
Benefits
- Stock program eligibility in addition to cash compensation.
- Company-matched 401k program.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Donation matching and paid volunteer time.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Distributed work environment with an emphasis on employee well-being and inclusion.
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.