Requirements

Experience leading technical projects in the data and enterprise architecture areas. You bring a proven knowledge in building and running sophisticated technical infrastructures and engineering sound software systems.
Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing technical and professional guidance.
Experience defining a long term technical vision for an area of a data-intensive application, working across teams and organizations to collaboratively build the technical roadmap.
Hands on experience with search and analytics solutions, some examples may include Splunk SPL, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic
Strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas. You have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms.
Working with a high level of autonomy, able to tackle projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.
Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and an understanding of how they work and why they work that way.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be supportive, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we expect that from everyone too.

Nice to Haves

You've built things with Elasticsearch before, and you have experience in the search and information retrieval space and understand the constructs and theory behind it.
Experience working with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.

As a full time Elasticsearch contributor, you will define, lead, and contribute to the development of data-intensive enhancements. You'll research the latest features, data-structures, and algorithms in the industry to ensure we're building the right capabilities for our users.
You'll work directly with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and build out a strategic vision for the longer term.
You'll bring your past experience in analytics systems to help build and drive an innovative roadmap for ES|QL and the compute engine.
Our globally distributed team of expert engineers is focused on the search and query (ES|QL) analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
Finally, we write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave