Elasticsearch - Software Developer (Java)

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

Job summary

A leading tech company in Canada seeks a Software Developer for its Elasticsearch team. You will develop distributed search software, contribute to scalable features, and tackle complex issues using Java. Ideal candidates have a strong background in software engineering and data storage technologies. This role promotes remote work and provides competitive compensation including salary and benefits.

Benefits

Health coverage for employees and families

Flexible work locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Qualifications

• Highly proficient in Java and familiar with data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues.
• Solid software engineering foundations with a track record of delivering high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable new features, fix bugs, and increase testing coverage.
• Tackle performance or concurrency issues.
• Collaborate openly with the Elasticsearch team and community.

Skills

Java

Algorithms

Concurrency

Data storage technologies

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Elasticsearch - Software Developer (Java)

Canada

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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — 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 talented Software Engineers to join our Elasticsearch team.

Do you want to work on distributed search and analytics software which impacts the lives of millions of people? We are looking for people with a deep knowledge of Java, algorithms, and concurrency and who love to take on new challenges.

As a Software Engineer in Elasticsearch you will get the opportunity to work on different initiatives. Whether it’s advancing Elastic Cloud Serverless, building new analytics capabilities in ES|QL (our newest query language powered by a new compute engine), enhancing current logging solutions to efficiently store logs and provide a great customer experience, there is always a good challenge ahead!

Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable, intuitive and high-quality software. We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements.

What You Will Be Doing:

• You'll be a full time Elasticsearch contributor, building scalable new features, fixing intriguing bugs and increasing the testing coverage, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you'll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure. Or find one and implement it. Sometimes you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware.
• Tackling difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
• Collaborating in the open with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic Stack users, and other supporting open source projects. You'll work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself.
• Partnering with our support engineers on the harder problems.
• You'll write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

What You Will Bring:

• You are highly proficient in Java, conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues.
• You have solid software engineering foundations, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions.
• A high level of autonomy. The distributed nature of the company offers freedom to work when and how you see fit, but also requires team members to work independently, and reach out for help when stuck.
• You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.

Bonus Points:

• You've built things with Elasticsearch before.
• You have experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives.
• You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
• You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS or cloud service development.

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.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$128,300 - $203,000 CAD

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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 [e-mail] We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

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