11 hours ago
Spain (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of Elastic’s next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve Elasticsearch components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination to preserve performance, safety, and liveness as nodes and data change.
- 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.
- Own projects from technical design through implementation and collaborate across teams and codebases.
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 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.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions, transition between projects and codebases, and work autonomously in a distributed team.
- Bonus: experience with data stores, search, analytics, Lucene, the JDK, and 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.
- Donation matching up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 volunteer hours per year.
- 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.