Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

📋 Description

• Focus on Elasticsearch scale, performance, and resilience.
• Own how cluster nodes communicate and data are indexed, allocated, and replicated.

What You Will Be Doing

• Improve Elasticsearch components for concurrent and consistent indexing across machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination as nodes join/leave and data moves, ensuring safety.
• Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Support our support engineers with the harder problems.

🎯 Requirements

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java skills with core libraries, data structures, and concurrency.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience with complex, highly distributed systems.
• Ability to build and debug features with broad impact across machines.
• Ownership of projects from start to finish, including design and cross-team work.

🎁 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 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love