Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

1 hour, 52 minutes 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 cluster coordination systems to preserve performance, safety, and liveness as nodes join, leave, and data moves across the cluster.
  • Push the limits of how many shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle.
  • Investigate performance, concurrency, and other complex system issues and propose solutions.
  • Support support engineers with difficult technical problems.
  • Own projects end to end, including technical design and cross-team component development.
  • Collaborate with other engineers to develop needed components for broad-impact features.
  • 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.
  • Experience working on complex, highly distributed systems.
  • Ability to build and debug features with broad impact running across multiple machines.
  • Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design.
  • Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
  • Preferred experience with data stores, search, analytics, or Lucene.
  • Preferred strong knowledge of the JDK.
  • Preferred experience with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here, not your previous salary.
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
  • Generous vacation days each year.
  • Up to $2,000 match for financial donations and service.
  • Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects you love.
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

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