Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - 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 Senior Software Engineer to improve storage efficiency for metrics, logs, and other types of data while enhancing the Elasticsearch storage engine and query capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on data storage mechanisms and query capabilities of Elasticsearch
• You'll be an expert in the storage engine area, and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about it
• You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts
• You'll be a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, building data-intensive new features, fixing intriguing bugs, and increasing the testing coverage, all while making the code easier to understand
• You will design and implement advanced algorithms and data structures, often working at the system and hardware level
• You’ll also engage with our global community for triaging and resolving issues and pull requests
• You'll write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Requirements:

• You have strong core Java skills and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs
• You have an excellent understanding of concurrent and parallel programming principles
• You have an excellent background in applied data processing (data structures, algorithms)
• You are familiar with storage systems and low-level abstractions in OS
• You work with a high level of autonomy and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end
• You have solid software engineering foundations, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions
• You're comfortable developing collaboratively
• You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, and have some idea how they work and why they work that way
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You've built things with Elasticsearch before
• You've worked on data storage technology
• You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
• You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
• You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development