Elastic · 2 months ago
Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer II - Distributed Systems
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $316K/yrElastic is the Search AI Company that enables organizations to find real-time answers using all their data at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer II to join their Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on enhancing the performance and resilience of Elasticsearch clusters by managing data indexing, allocation, and replication across nodes.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
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
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 language features
A deep technical proficiency in algorithms
Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems
Ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines
Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with others to develop needed components
Experience leading projects spanning multiple teams
Experience communicating with a variety of stakeholders
Preferred
Data stores
Search, analytics, Lucene
Strong knowledge of the JDK
Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty
Benefits
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
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