Senior Java Platform Infra Engineer

Elasticsearch B.V.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage for you and your loved

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time and donations matching

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will help ensure the shared platform functionalities are easy to use, fast, maintainable, and secure across serverless, cloud, and on-prem deployments.

You will contribute to core infrastructure and APIs, drive automation, and lead cross-team initiatives while mentoring others and collaborating with open source communities. A strong design sense and autonomy are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to large, impactful projects that evolve core Elasticsearch infrastructure.
• Identify and develop opportunities for automation and integrate agentic apps into development workflows.
• Design and implement new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Solve difficult issues including performance or concurrency and propose solutions.
• Improve operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
• Collaborate openly with the ES team, Elastic users, and open source projects.
• Support our engineers with harder problems.
• Own end-to-end investigations until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Skills

API design

Algorithms & data structures

Core Java

Java concurrency

JDK internals

Leading large projects

Independent work

Cross-team collaboration

AI-assisted development

Asynchronous communication

Tools

Gradle

Maven

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. You will help ensure the shared platform functionalities are easy to use, fast, maintainable, and secure across serverless, cloud, and on-prem deployments.

You will contribute to core infrastructure and APIs, drive automation, and lead cross-team initiatives while mentoring others and collaborating with open source communities. A strong design sense and autonomy are essential.