Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems

Elastic, 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. The Elastic Search AI Platform helps organizations deliver on the promise of AI through secure, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability.

We are on the lookout for a Principal Software Engineer 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.

• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even as nodes join or leave 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.
• Investigating 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 standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, plus newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience understanding and working on complex, highly distributed systems.
• Ability to build and debug features with broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration with others to develop 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

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