What You'll Be Doing

• Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
• Improving Elasticsearch developer productivity by automating workflows and integrating agentic apps.
• Designing and implementing horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
• Solving complex issues including performance and concurrency, proposing effective solutions.
• Enhancing operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
• Collaborating openly with the Elasticsearch team, users, and supporting open source projects.
• Supporting support engineers with challenging problems.
• Owning operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Requirements

• Experience crafting APIs with the ability to analyze tradeoffs.
• Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
• Strong skills in core Java including data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
• Experience with low-level Java concepts like concurrency, parallelism, and classloaders.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (e.g., Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
• Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
• Ability and willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when needed.
• Proven ability to own projects from design through development.
• Track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning results.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and transition between projects and codebases based on priority.
• Capability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team environment with clear communication.

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of JDK internals such as modules, Java memory model, garbage collection, caching, and database load.
• Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, especially OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of the Go programming language.
• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Java build tools, particularly Gradle.
• Experience working in platform or developer productivity teams.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay based on your work and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles to craft your own calendar.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching up to $2000 (or local equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to volunteer for projects you love.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave to support parenthood.