Principal Elasticsearch Distributed Systems Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; On-site; USD 133,100 - 210,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for family

Flexible work locations

Generous vacation days

Parental leave of 16 weeks

Volunteer time off

Company-matched 401(k)

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer I to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. This role involves improving the performance and resilience of Elasticsearch, focusing on how nodes communicate and how data is indexed across machines.

Ideal candidates will have a strong background in distributed systems and core Java, with the ability to tackle complex issues. Benefits include competitive pay, health coverage, flexible schedules, and a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Qualifications

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java and concurrency constructs.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to work on complex, distributed systems.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.

Responsibilities

• Improve Elasticsearch’s components for concurrent indexing.
• Maintain cluster coordination system performance.
• Push limits on shards and nodes Elasticsearch can handle.
• Resolve performance or concurrency issues.
• Support harder problems for support engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Core Java

Algorithms

Concurrency

Tools

Lucene

Netty

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Software Engineer I to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team. This role involves improving the performance and resilience of Elasticsearch, focusing on how nodes communicate and how data is indexed across machines.

Ideal candidates will have a strong background in distributed systems and core Java, with the ability to tackle complex issues. Benefits include competitive pay, health coverage, flexible schedules, and a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.