[Hiring] Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch @Elastic
Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch @Elastic
Software Development
Salary usd 133,100 - 2..
Remote Location
🇺🇸 USA Only
Employment Type full-time
Posted Today

[Hiring] Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Today - Elastic is hiring a remote Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch. 💸 Salary: usd 133,100 - 252,900 per year 📍Location: USA

Role Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer 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.
  • Ability 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
  • In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply:
  • $159,900 — $252,900 USD

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.

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. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected] .

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Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch @Elastic
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Salary usd 133,100 - 2..
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Employment Type full-time
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