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 support engineers with the harder problems.
• Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.

Requirements

• Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Strong skills in core Java, including concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, and newer language features.
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices such as Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps.
• Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.
• Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when needed.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end including technical design and collaboration.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects and codebases based on business priorities.
• Ability to work autonomously, drive decisions and results, leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication in a distributed team.

Nice to Haves

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

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work done, not previous salary.
• Health coverage for employees and their families in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous vacation days each year.
• Matching financial donations up to $2000 (or local equivalent) and support for volunteer projects with up to 40 hours yearly.
• Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave.
• Inclusive and diverse company culture valuing different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.