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).

Nice to Haves

• Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.
• Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when needed.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and debug complex systems.

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.
• 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 with the ES team, Elastic users, and supporting open source projects.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching financial donations for up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent).
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.