[Hiring] Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch @Referral Board

Role Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Developer 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.
• 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.

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:

• $133,100 — $210,600 USD
• $159,900 — $252,900 USD (in select locations)
• $128,300 — $203,000 CAD

Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in Elastic's stock program.
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching up to $2000 for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Additional Information

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Different people approach problems differently. We need that.
• Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals.