Senior Java Engineer for Serverless Distributed Systems

PowerToFly; Portugal; On-site; EUR 55,800 - 88,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Flexible locations

Generous vacation

Donations match up to €2000

Volunteer hours (40h/year)

Work from home policy

Job summary

Elastic seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience in our Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges around cluster communication, indexing, and data management across nodes.

You will build and operate core components, improve indexing concurrency, and maintain a robust cluster coordination system, ensuring safety and liveness even as nodes move and data shifts across the cluster.

Qualifications

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java and data structures.
• Deep proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience with complex, highly distributed systems.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Push limits on shards/nodes/petabytes Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Support engineering with difficult problems.
• Own end-to-end investigations until issues are resolved.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Algorithms

Concurrency

Ownership

Collaboration

Job description

Elastic seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience in our Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges around cluster communication, indexing, and data management across nodes.

You will build and operate core components, improve indexing concurrency, and maintain a robust cluster coordination system, ensuring safety and liveness even as nodes move and data shifts across the cluster.