Elastic

Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Canada · Senior

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

JavaDistributed SystemsData StructuresElasticsearchAccessibility

About the role

We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Developer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering.
You will be tackling deep distributed systems challenges in how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes.

Improving Elasticsearch's components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders.

You have a deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
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.
You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services.
Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.
we need you for what you can do.
You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
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:
Data stores

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.

Generous number of vacation days each year
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Leveraging your distributed systems expertise to build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.

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