Principal Java Engineer - Serverless DS (Remote)

PowerToFly; Norway; On-site; NOK 949,500 - 1,502,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) / Retirement Plan

Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave

Health coverage & vision insurance

Flexible locations & schedules

Work from home policy

Generous vacation time & paid holidays

Job summary

Elastic is seeking 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 around node communication, indexing, allocation, and data management across nodes.

You will design, build, and operate core components, improve indexing across machines, and maintain cluster coordination to sustain high performance as the system scales.

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java and data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems across multiple machines.
• Experience building and debugging complex features with broad impact.
• Ability to own projects from design to delivery and lead collaborations.
• Experience managing projects with multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and debugging.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms

Java

Data structures

Algorithms

Multi-node systems

Project leadership

AI acceleration

Tools

Netty

JDK

Job description

Elastic is seeking 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 around node communication, indexing, allocation, and data management across nodes.

You will design, build, and operate core components, improve indexing across machines, and maintain cluster coordination to sustain high performance as the system scales.