Elastic · 12 hours ago

Elasticsearch - Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$133K/yr - $211K/yr

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Responsibilities

Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.

Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole.

Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.

Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.

Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsConsensus AlgorithmsCore JavaAlgorithmsData StructuresConcurrency ConstructsDebuggingData StoresLuceneJDK KnowledgeAsynchronous FrameworksNetty

Required

A strong background in Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms.

Strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas.

Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.

Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.

Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.

Demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.