Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer I (Distributed Systems)

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We are looking for a senior engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on scale, performance, and resilience. The team owns node communication and data indexing/replication across nodes.

• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go, while maintaining safety and liveness properties of the system.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
• Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with the Java standard library and concurrency constructs.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience understanding and working on complex, highly distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to build and debug features with broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.

• Data stores.
• Search, analytics, Lucene.
• Strong knowledge of the JDK.
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

• 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.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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