Senior Java Core/Infra Engineer — Flexible Location

Elastic; United Kingdom; À distance; GBP 74 000 - 117 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching program

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Résumé du poste

Elastic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch team. You will help design, implement, and operate core infrastructure and shared features that enable developers to build, extend, and support Elasticsearch across serverless, cloud, and on‑premise environments.

You will drive initiatives, lead cross-team collaboration, and apply strong Java expertise to deliver scalable, observable systems with secure, high-performance architecture.

Qualifications

• Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Strong Java skills and knowledge of concurrency constructs.
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
• Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.

Responsabilités

• Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure of Elasticsearch.
• Making Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying automation opportunities and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.
• Designing and implementing new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency challenges, and proposing solutions.
• Improving operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
• Collaborating in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other open source projects.
• Owning operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Connaissances

Java

Concurrency

APIs

CI/CD

Leadership

AI acceleration

Outils

Gradle

Maven

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Go

Description du poste

Elastic is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch team. You will help design, implement, and operate core infrastructure and shared features that enable developers to build, extend, and support Elasticsearch across serverless, cloud, and on‑premise environments.

You will drive initiatives, lead cross-team collaboration, and apply strong Java expertise to deliver scalable, observable systems with secure, high-performance architecture.