[Hiring] Principal Software Developer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Able to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and collaboration with others to develop needed components.
• 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 new hires in this role is:

• $128,300 — $203,000 CAD

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.

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 $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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.