Principal Distributed Systems Engineer: Scale & Resilience

Elastic Nv; Málaga; Presencial; EUR 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer I for Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems in Málaga. You will focus on scale, performance, and resilience, owning features from design to deployment across multiple machines.

The role demands deep expertise in distributed systems, Java, and algorithms, with leadership in coordinating engineers and delivering high-impact components like shard management and cluster coordination.

Formación

• Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Core Java and concurrency knowledge.
• Ability to understand and work on highly distributed systems.
• Experience owning projects and coordinating multiple engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Improve components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination to keep performance high as nodes join/leave and data moves.
• Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Support our engineers with the harder problems.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms

Core Java

Data structures & concurrency

System design

Project ownership

Team leadership

Herramientas

Netty

Lucene

JDK

Descripción del empleo

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer I for Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems in Málaga. You will focus on scale, performance, and resilience, owning features from design to deployment across multiple machines.

The role demands deep expertise in distributed systems, Java, and algorithms, with leadership in coordinating engineers and delivering high-impact components like shard management and cluster coordination.