Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer I to join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on improving Elasticsearch’s performance, scalability, and resilience.

Responsibilities:

• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today
• Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions
• Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems

Requirements:

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms
• Strong skills in core Java and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems
• Ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with others to develop needed components
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers
• Data stores
• Search, analytics, Lucene
• Strong knowledge of the JDK
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty