Senior Java Engineer - Core Infra & Platform Automation

Elastic; United States; On-site; USD 78,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and yourFamily

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team and ensure shared platform functionalities are easy to use, fast, maintainable, and secure. You will shape core infrastructure, services, and scripting, enabling developers to extend Elasticsearch through plugins or Painless scripting.

You will also contribute to serverless orchestration, CI/CD workflows, and cloud/on-prem deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
• Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
• Strong skills in core Java and concurrency constructs; with newer language features.
• Experience with low-level Java: concurrency, parallelism, classloaders.
• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, memory model, GC, caching.
• Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end: design and cross-team delivery.
• Track record of using AI to accelerate development and debug complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve core Elasticsearch infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities for automation to improve developer productivity.
• Design and implement horizontally scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Resolve performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
• Improve operation and observability of cloud systems.
• Collaborate openly with Elastic users and open source projects.
• Support engineers with difficult issues and drive end-to-end investigations.

Skills

APIs design

Algorithms

Java language

Concurrency

JDK internals

leadership

autonomy

multi-team collaboration

AI-assisted development

problem solving

Tools

CI/CD tools (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps)

Java build tools (Gradle, Maven)

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Go

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team and ensure shared platform functionalities are easy to use, fast, maintainable, and secure. You will shape core infrastructure, services, and scripting, enabling developers to extend Elasticsearch through plugins or Painless scripting.

You will also contribute to serverless orchestration, CI/CD workflows, and cloud/on-prem deployments.