Elastic · 10 hours ago
Elasticsearch - Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$133K/yr - $211K/yrElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to improve storage efficiency for metrics and logs, advance query solutions, and optimize storage layouts for object storage.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
You’ll work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on data storage mechanisms and query capabilities of Elasticsearch
You'll be an expert in the storage engine area, and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about it
You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts
You'll be a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, building data-intensive new features, fixing intriguing bugs, and increasing the testing coverage, all while making the code easier to understand
You will design and implement advanced algorithms and data structures, often working at the system and hardware level
You’ll also engage with our global community for triaging and resolving issues and pull requests
You'll write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
Qualification
Required
You have strong core Java skills and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs
You have an excellent understanding of concurrent and parallel programming principles
You have an excellent background in applied data processing (data structures, algorithms)
You are familiar with storage systems and low-level abstractions in OS
You work with a high level of autonomy and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components
You have solid software engineering foundations, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions
You're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code, approaches, and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software
You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, and have some idea how they work and why they work that way
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too
Preferred
You've built things with Elasticsearch before
You've worked on data storage technology
You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development
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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