Senior Java Engineer: Scale Serverless Distributed Systems

Elasticsearch B.V.; Portugal; Remote; EUR 56,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible schedule

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience for the Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges around node communication, indexing, and data distribution across the cluster.

You will leverage your expertise in distributed systems and Java to build core components, improve indexing across machines, and maintain cluster coordination as nodes churn.

Qualifications

• Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Proficiency in core Java and data structures.
• Ability to work on highly distributed systems without off-the-shelf services.
• Experience building features with broad impact across multiple machines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core pieces of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improve indexing and cluster coordination for scale and resilience.
• Maintain cluster health as nodes join/leave and data shifts.
• Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose fixes.
• Support engineers with complex problems.
• Own end-to-end operational investigations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Algorithms

Concurrency

AI acceleration

Tools

Netty

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience for the Serverless offering. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges around node communication, indexing, and data distribution across the cluster.

You will leverage your expertise in distributed systems and Java to build core components, improve indexing across machines, and maintain cluster coordination as nodes churn.