Elasticsearch - Senior Java Engineer - Distributed

$133,100 - $210,600/Yr

Elasticsearch - Boise, ID

Full-time - Senior

Boise, ID

Management of Companies and Enterprises

About the position

The Senior Java Engineer position at Elastic focuses on enhancing the Elasticsearch Distributed Systems team, which is responsible for ensuring the scale, performance, and resilience of Elasticsearch clusters. The role involves improving components for concurrent indexing, maintaining cluster coordination systems, and addressing performance issues while supporting the overall safety and liveness of the system.

Responsibilities

• Improving Elasticsearch's components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining the cluster coordination system to ensure high performance as nodes come and go from the cluster.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigating performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions.
• Supporting support engineers with complex problems.

Requirements

• Strong background in Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms.
• Proficient in core Java and familiar with data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• Capability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with data stores.
• Knowledge of search and analytics, particularly Lucene.
• Strong knowledge of the JDK.
• Familiarity with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

Benefits

• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
• Participation in Elastic's stock program.
• Holistic emphasis on employee well-being.