Elastic · 4 hours ago

Elasticsearch - Software Engineer II - Lucene, Solr, JVM

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$111K/yr - $176K/yr

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Responsibilities

You'll be a full time Elasticsearch contributor, building data intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.

Sometimes you'll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure.

Or find one and implement it.

Sometimes you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware.

You’ll work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the search capabilities of Elasticsearch.

You'll be an expert in several areas of Elasticsearch and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about them.

You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts.

You’ll help us create the future of search within Elasticsearch - building a scalable search tier for our Serverless platform and writing search functionality in ES|QL, our new piped query language as two examples.

You'll work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself.

You'll write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Qualification

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JavaElasticsearchData StructuresConcurrency ConstructsSearch ExperienceAlgorithm DesignData Storage TechnologiesSolrPostgreSQLMongoDBCassandraSoftware as a ServiceOpen Source ProjectsContinuous IntegrationAsynchronous Collaboration

Required

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.

Ability to work with a high level of autonomy, taking on projects and guiding them from beginning to end, covering both technical design and collaboration with other engineers.

Comfortable developing collaboratively, giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs.

Experience with several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and understanding of how they work and why.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.