11 hours ago
Greece (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
- Improve concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
- Maintain cluster coordination as nodes join, leave, and data moves while preserving safety and liveness.
- Scale Elasticsearch across increasing numbers of shards, nodes, and petabytes of data.
- Investigate and resolve performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues end to end.
- Support support engineers with complex technical problems.
- Own projects from technical design through implementation and collaborate across teams and codebases.
Requirements
- Deep experience with 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 distributed systems across multiple machines rather than relying on off-the-shelf services.
- Ability to build and debug broadly impactful features.
- Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and cross-functional collaboration.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate autonomously across distributed teams and adapt to changing business priorities.
- 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.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent matched for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Distributed-company work environment and inclusive culture.
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.