What You'll Be Doing

Designing, building, and operating core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering using distributed systems expertise.
Improving Elasticsearch components to support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Maintaining cluster coordination to ensure high performance as nodes join and leave, while preserving system safety and liveness.
Extending Elasticsearch's capacity to handle more shards, nodes, and petabytes of data.
Investigating and resolving performance and concurrency issues.
Supporting support engineers with complex problems.
Owning operational investigations from start to finish to resolve performance or stability issues.

Requirements

Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
Strong skills in core Java, including data structures, concurrency, and modern language features.
Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
Experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than relying on off-the-shelf services.
Experience developing and debugging complex multi-machine features with broad impact.
Ability to own projects end-to-end covering technical design and collaboration.
Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning outcomes.
Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects based on business priorities.
Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team using asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

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