Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems (Serverless)

Rebash; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Volunteer time

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges to ensure scale, performance, and resilience of the Serverless offering, including node communication and data indexing across clusters.

You will design, build, and operate core components, maintain cluster coordination, and push the limits of shards and petabytes handled.

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java programming and knowledge of concurrency constructs.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems with end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core components of our Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination to sustain performance as nodes join/leave and data moves.
• Own projects from inception to deployment and operation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Concurrency

Algorithms

AI acceleration

Project ownership

Team collaboration

Asynchronous communication

Tools

Netty

Lucene

JDK

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges to ensure scale, performance, and resilience of the Serverless offering, including node communication and data indexing across clusters.

You will design, build, and operate core components, maintain cluster coordination, and push the limits of shards and petabytes handled.