Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic; Schweiz; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching program

Volunteer hours allocation

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges, focusing on how Elasticsearch scales, performs, and remains resilient, especially in our Serverless offering.

You will work on how nodes communicate, index data, and manage distribution across a cluster. Bring a strong background in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java.

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java core skills and familiarity with concurrency constructs.
• Proficiency in data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with complex, highly distributed systems beyond simple services.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end with technical design and collaboration.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core pieces of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve indexing and concurrency across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination for high performance and resilience.
• Push limits on shards, nodes, and data scale.
• Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose fixes.
• Support engineering with complex problems and own investigations end-to-end.

Skills

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms

Java

Data structures

Algorithms

Distributed awareness

Project ownership

Cross-team collaboration

AI-assisted debugging

Tools

Netty

JDK

Lucene

Job description

the company, 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 the company 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 — the company’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, especially in the context of our Serverless offering. You will be tackling deep distributed systems challenges in how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Leveraging your distributed systems expertise to build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.

• 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.

• Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.

What You Bring:

• You have a deep 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 language features.

• You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms.

• You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services.

• You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.

• You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.

• You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.

• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.

• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

Bonus Points:

• Data stores

• Search, analytics, Lucene

• Strong knowledge of the JDK

• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

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, the company 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

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