Principal Java Engineer — Serverless Distributed Systems

Elasticsearch B.V.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

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

You will design and operate core components, improve indexing performance, and own end-to-end projects while collaborating with multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java skills and knowledge of data structures and concurrency.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems across multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end and lead cross-functional teams.
• Experience applying AI to accelerate development and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve components that support indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination for dynamic nodes while preserving safety and liveness.
• Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Support engineers with harder problems.
• Own end-to-end operational investigations until issues are resolved.

Skills

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms

Java proficiency

Data structures & concurrency

Algorithms

Large-scale distributed systems

Project ownership

AI acceleration

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomous work

Tools

Netty

Lucene

JDK

Data stores

Async frameworks

Job description

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

You will design and operate core components, improve indexing performance, and own end-to-end projects while collaborating with multiple teams.