Elastic

Senior Java Developer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch

Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$128k-$203kDetected 2 days ago

JavaGoData StructuresAlgorithmsElasticsearchKubernetesCI/CDAccessibilityArgo CD

About the role

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people.
The team also makes Elasticsearch observable by providing logging and telemetry information.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders.
Making Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying and developing opportunities for automation, and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps etc).
Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.
Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc.
Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry
Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes
Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team
Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when you need it.
You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.
You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
Bonus Points

for this role is in the form of base salary.
This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.
These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.
We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

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