Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless

About the Role

Elastic is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. You will focus on the scale, performance, and resilience of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, tackling deep challenges in cluster coordination, data indexing, and node 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 performance and safety as nodes scale.
• Push the limits of shard, node, and petabyte-scale handling.
• Investigate and resolve complex performance and concurrency issues.
• Own operational investigations end-to-end and support engineering teams with high-level technical challenges.

What You Bring

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong proficiency in core Java, including standard library data structures, concurrency, and modern language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Proven ability to build and debug complex, highly distributed systems from scratch.
• Ability to own projects from technical design through development.
• Experience using AI to accelerate development and debug complex systems.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive results in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.

Bonus Points

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

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on market benchmarks.
• Flexible locations and schedules.
• Generous annual vacation days.
• Health coverage for you and your family.
• Financial donation matching up to $2,000.
• 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
• Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave.