[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - Timeseries - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team that’s contributing to improving our storage efficiency for metrics, logs, and other types of data, advancing our ES|QL solution to query such data, as well as optimizing the storage layout for object storage.

• Work on enhancing current logging solutions to ensure that logging data is always accepted and persisted.
• Advance current metrics processing capabilities for massive and seamless adoption by customers.
• Improve storage efficiency across the board.
• Extend the logic for efficiently querying and aggregating stored data, taking storage layout and ordering into account.

Qualifications

• Strong core Java skills and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Excellent understanding of concurrent and parallel programming principles.
• Excellent background in applied data processing (data structures, algorithms).
• Familiarity with storage systems and low-level abstractions in OS.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and guide projects from beginning to end.
• Solid software engineering foundations with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions.
• Comfortable developing collaboratively, giving and receiving feedback on code, approaches, and APIs.
• Experience with several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience building data-intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs.
• Engagement with the global community for triaging and resolving issues and pull requests.
• Writing idiomatic modern Java, as Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java.

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.
• Matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.