Principal Software Developer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Position: Principal Software Developer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch
The company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale—unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

Our Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data—securing and protecting private information more effectively—our complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is

The Role:

We are on the lookout for a Principal Software Developer I to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.

What You Will Be Doing:

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 from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole.

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.

What You Bring:

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.

You have experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.

Bonus Points:

Data stores

Search, analytics, Lucene

Strong knowledge of the JDK

Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

Compensation:
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for this role is $128,300 – $203,000 CAD. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The company believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in the company’s stock program.

Our total rewards package also includes a company‑matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well‑being.

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 $2,000 (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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Equal Opportunity and Inclusion:
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