Senior Java Platform Engineer — Core Infra

Elastic; United Kingdom; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will focus on making shared platform functionalities easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure, while contributing to and leading cross-team projects.

You will own projects from design to delivery, work across teams, and apply AI-enhanced approaches to accelerate development and debugging of complex systems. The role emphasizes autonomy and collaboration.

Formación

• Strong Java fundamentals and a deep understanding of core APIs.
• Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
• Experience with low-level Java, concurrency and parallelism.

Responsabilidades

• Contribute to large projects that evolve Elasticsearch core infrastructure.
• Improve developer productivity by automating workflows and integrating tooling.
• Design and implement horizontally-sc scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Address performance and concurrency challenges and propose solutions.
• Improve operation and observability of cloud-based Elasticsearch systems.
• Collaborate openly with the ES team, Elastic users and open source projects.
• Support engineering teams with complex issues and investigations.

Conocimientos

Java

APIs

Concurrency

Data structures

Algorithms

Problem solving

Distributed systems

Herramientas

Gradle

Maven

Go

CI/CD

Descripción del empleo

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will focus on making shared platform functionalities easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure, while contributing to and leading cross-team projects.

You will own projects from design to delivery, work across teams, and apply AI-enhanced approaches to accelerate development and debugging of complex systems. The role emphasizes autonomy and collaboration.