2 months ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new analytics and query-engine features in Elasticsearch.
- Enhance existing functionality, fix bugs, and improve code clarity and maintainability.
- Research and implement efficient data structures and algorithms for data-intensive systems.
- Work close to operating-system and hardware layers when needed.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering, UI, and solutions teams.
- Serve as an Elasticsearch expert, improve owned areas, and support community issues and pull requests.
- Lead projects from technical design through implementation while collaborating asynchronously across teams.
Requirements
- Strong core Java skills, including the standard library, data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas.
- Experience with software systems engineering and optimizing data structures and algorithms.
- Ability to work autonomously and guide projects from beginning to end.
- Experience with several data-storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
- Strong written and verbal communication and collaborative code-review experience.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and transition between projects, codebases, or teams based on priorities.
- Preferred experience building with Elasticsearch, working in search or information retrieval, developing data-storage or analytics technologies, contributing to open-source projects, and using source-control and continuous-integration workflows.
- Preferred experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.
Benefits
- Fully remote work in a globally distributed company with flexible locations and schedules.
- Base salary with eligibility for Elastic’s stock program and no variable compensation component.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Up to $2,000 matching annually for financial donations and up to 40 volunteer hours per year.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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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.