Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless

About the Role

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch Distributed Systems team. You will focus on the scalability, performance, and resilience of our Elasticsearch platform, with a specific emphasis on our next-generation Serverless offering. You will tackle complex challenges regarding node communication, data indexing, allocation, and cluster management.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leverage distributed systems expertise to build and operate core components of our Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination systems to ensure high performance and safety during node churn.
• Push the limits of scale regarding shards, nodes, and petabytes handled by Elasticsearch.
• Investigate and resolve complex performance, concurrency, and stability issues.
• Provide expert-level support for challenging technical problems and own operational investigations end-to-end.

What You Bring

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong proficiency in core Java, including standard library data structures, concurrency constructs, and modern language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Proven ability to build and debug complex, highly distributed systems from the ground up.
• Ability to own projects from technical design through to development and deployment.
• Experience using AI to accelerate development, debug systems, and optimize code.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work autonomously in a distributed team environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience with data stores, search, analytics, or Lucene.
• Strong knowledge of the JDK.
• Experience with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks like Netty.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay with stock program eligibility.
• Company-matched 401k (up to 6%).
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• Flexible locations and schedules.
• Generous annual vacation policy.
• Donation matching (up to $2,000) and 40 hours of volunteer time off.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.