Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

📋 Description

• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high as nodes join/leave and data moves.
• Pushing the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Looking into performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
• Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

🎯 Requirements

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
• You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.