Requirements

Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
Strong skills in core Java and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps, etc).
Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when needed.

What You'll Be Doing

Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure that underpins Elasticsearch.
Making Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying and developing opportunities for automation, and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.
Designing and implementing new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions.
Improving operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
Collaborating in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other supporting open source projects.
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.

Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc.
Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry.
Knowledge of Go.
Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.
Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc), with a strong preference for Gradle experience.
Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team.

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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.