Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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

Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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 a Principal Software Engineer I 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 language features.
• You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• 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 experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.

Bonus Points:

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

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