Elasticsearch - Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems

Requirements:

• A strong 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 features like lambdas.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
• You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.

Nice to Haves:

• Data stores
• Search, analytics, Lucene
• Strong knowledge of the JDK
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

What You'll Be Doing:

• Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even when nodes come and go from the cluster.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle.
• Investigating performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions.
• Supporting support engineers with complex problems.

Perks and Benefits:

• 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
• Matching financial donations and service hours for volunteer projects
• 16 weeks of parental leave