What You'll Be Doing

Designing, building, and operating core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering with a focus on distributed systems.
Enhancing Elasticsearch’s support for concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Maintaining cluster coordination for high performance despite dynamic node changes and data movement, ensuring system safety and liveness.
Scaling Elasticsearch to handle increasing shards, nodes, and petabytes of data.
Investigating and solving performance, concurrency, and other technical issues.
Supporting support engineers with complex problems.
Leading operational investigations to resolve performance or stability issues end-to-end.

Requirements

Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
Strong skills in core Java including data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
Advanced technical proficiency in algorithms.
Experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than relying on off-the-shelf services.
Proven experience building and debugging complex features across multiple machines.
Ability to own projects from design through development and delivery.
Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
Track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
Strong collaboration skills across functions and teams with the ability to switch between projects based on priorities.
Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions in a distributed team using asynchronous and transparent communication.

Competitive pay based on work performance, not previous salary.
Health coverage for employee and family in many locations.
Flexible scheduling and location options for many roles.
Generous vacation days annually.
Company matches up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave.
Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility with support for accommodations.