Lead Java Engineer - Distributed Systems (Serverless ES)

Borderless; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 61.000 - 97.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive pay based on work you do (

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time (up to 40 hours/year)

Parental leave, 16 weeks

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience in a Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges around node communication, indexing, and data management across nodes.

You will design, build, and operate core components for the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch, improving concurrent indexing and maintaining a robust cluster coordination system across dynamic

Formación

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java and standard library knowledge, including data structures and concurrency.
• Strong proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems, not using off-the-shelf services.
• Experience building and debugging complex features with broad impact across multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from design to delivery and work with others to develop components.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and debug complex systems, while owning outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and transition between projects as priorities shift.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions in distributed teams.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, affecting customers worldwide.
• Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination to handle node churn and data movement while ensuring safety and liveness.
• Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Support our engineers with challenging problems.
• Own operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms

Core Java

Data structures

Concurrency

Algorithms

Large-scale systems

End-to-end ownership

Project management

Autonomous work

Herramientas

Netty

Lucene

JDK

Descripción del empleo

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience in a Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges around node communication, indexing, and data management across nodes.

You will design, build, and operate core components for the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch, improving concurrent indexing and maintaining a robust cluster coordination system across dynamic