Principal Java Engineer – Serverless Distributed Systems

PowerToFly; Portugal; On-site; EUR 67,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Parental leave

Flexible locations and schedules

Work from home policy

Generous vacation time

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering.

You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges across nodes, data indexing, distribution, and coordination to keep performance high as the cluster evolves.

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong Java skills and familiarity with data structures and concurrency.
• Deep proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems with broad impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core pieces of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve components for concurrent and consistent indexing across machines.
• Maintain cluster coordination to keep performance as nodes join/leave and data moves.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Algorithms

Large-scale systems

Project ownership

AI acceleration

Tools

Netty

JDK

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering.

You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges across nodes, data indexing, distribution, and coordination to keep performance high as the cluster evolves.