Principal Java Engineer - Serverless Distributed Systems

Elastic; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage for you and yourFamily

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching up to $2000

Volunteer hours (up to 40 hours/year)

16 weeks parental leave

Job summary

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

You will design and operate core pieces of our Serverless Elasticsearch, improve concurrent indexing, maintain cluster coordination, and push shard-scale limits while owning end-to-end investigations

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java skills and familiarity with the standard library for data structures and concurrency.
• Deep proficiency in algorithms and experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end and collaborate across teams.
• Experience debugging complex, multi-machine features with broad impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination to keep performance as nodes join/leave and data moves.
• Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose robust solutions.
• Support engineers with difficult problems and own investigations end-to-end.

Skills

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms

Java

Asynchronous programming

System design

Project ownership

Tools

Netty

Lucene

JDK

Job description

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

You will design and operate core pieces of our Serverless Elasticsearch, improve concurrent indexing, maintain cluster coordination, and push shard-scale limits while owning end-to-end investigations