Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Elastic

Elastic

Elastic is a leading platform for search-powered solutions, providing real-time insights and making data usable for developers and enterprises worldwide.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
  • Maintain the cluster coordination system to preserve performance, safety, and liveness as nodes and data change.
  • Push the limits of how many shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle.
  • Investigate performance, concurrency, and other complex distributed systems issues and propose solutions.
  • Support support engineers in resolving the hardest technical problems.
  • Own projects end to end, including technical design and collaboration on component development.
  • Work on complex, highly distributed systems that run across multiple machines.
  • Manage projects involving multiple engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • Strong core Java skills, including the standard library, data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
  • Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
  • Demonstrated ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
  • Ability to build and debug features with broad impact across multiple machines.
  • Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
  • Experience with data stores is a plus.
  • Experience with search, analytics, or Lucene is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of the JDK is a plus.
  • Experience with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
  • Typical starting salary range of €73,300 to €115,900 EUR.
  • Competitive pay based on the work you do rather than your previous salary.
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
  • Generous number of vacation days each year.
  • Up to 16 weeks of parental leave.
  • Up to $2,000 (or local currency equivalent) in matching for financial donations and service.
  • Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects.

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