Platform - Opster - Senior Software Engineer - Java, K8

Referral Board; España; A distancia; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading tech company in Spain is hiring a Senior Software Engineer specialized in Java to join their Elasticsearch team. The role involves designing scalable features, optimizing performance, and collaborating across teams. The ideal candidate will have strong Java skills and experience in deployment. Competitive pay and flexible working conditions offered.

Servicios

Competitive pay

Health coverage for family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer project support

Parental leave up to 16 weeks

Formación

• Ability to lead projects involving multiple engineers.
• Willingness to dive into new issues.
• Strong software development skills.

Responsabilidades

• Designing and implementing new features and APIs.
• Optimizing internal data structures.
• Collaborating with the Elasticsearch team.

Conocimientos

Strong on Java

Concurrency concepts

Experience deploying in production

Experience with ELK stack

Basic knowledge in Postgres

Herramientas

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Platform - Opster - Senior Software Engineer - Java, K8

Spain

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

Engineering a highly complex distributed system that is easy to operate via elegantly designed APIs is a non‑trivial effort. It requires solid software development skills, and more importantly, a sharp mind and the ability to think like a user. We also care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you’re working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible in our organization. At Elastic, we effectively don’t have a hierarchy to speak of. We feel that you should be empowered to comment on really anything, regardless of your role within the company.

Right now, we are on the lookout for a talented Java Engineer to join our Elasticsearch opex team and focus on understanding Elasticsearch performance, optimization, and best practices for the production environment. You can be based (pretty much) anywhere in the world.

What You Will Be Doing

• Designing and implementing new horizontally scalable features and APIs in our product
• Optimizing internal data structures used to understand Elasticsearch under the hood
• Create new workflow pipeline
• Tackling difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions
• Collaborating in the open with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic support engineers, and others
• Make our customers and our support engineers greater

What You Bring

• Strong on Java in general, including concurrency concepts and the standard library of data structures
• Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when you need it
• Experience deploying and operationalizing software in production
• Experience leading projects involving multiple engineers
• Ability to plan design implement and lead project independently
• Experience with the ELK stack
• Basic knowledge in any relational database with a preference to Postgres

Bonus Points

• Knowledge in GOExperience with kafka, docker, kubernetes

  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.

  Benefits

  • 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

  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.

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