Elasticsearch - Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems

Referral Board; Canada; Remote; CAD 128,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve the performance and resilience of Elasticsearch systems. Key responsibilities include enhancing indexing components, maintaining high cluster performance, and solving complex issues. The ideal candidate has a strong background in distributed systems and core Java, as well as proven experience in complex environments. This role offers a competitive salary range of CAD 128,300 - 203,000 and an extensive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Qualifications

• Strong background in Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java including data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Improve components for concurrent and consistent indexing.
• Maintain cluster coordination for performance.
• Push boundaries on Elasticsearch's shard and node capabilities.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Core Java

Algorithms

Concurrency

Job description

Elasticsearch - Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is The Role:

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.

What You Bring:

• A strong background in Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms.
• You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
• You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.

Bonus Points:

• Search, analytics, Lucene
• Strong knowledge of the JDK
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

Compensation and Benefits

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 listed below. In select locations (Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply.

Typical salary ranges:

• United States: $133,100 - $210,600 USD
• Canada (CAD): $128,300 - $203,000 CAD
• Note: Ranges represent the lowest to highest pay we believe we would offer at posting time and may change.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on factors including education, qualifications, experience, location, performance, and business needs. Elastic also offers a stock program and a holistic benefits package, including a company-matched 401k (or RRSP where applicable) and other well-being benefits.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, Elastic values diversity and inclusion. We strive to provide parity of benefits across regions and adapt to local regulations while supporting employees with a range of benefits, flexible work arrangements, and generous leave policies.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous vacation days
• Donations matching and volunteer time
• Parental leave

Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We welcome applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, or other protected status. We provide accommodations during the application process upon request.

Privacy and compliance information, including how to request accommodations, is available in Elastic’s privacy and accessibility statements.