Elasticsearch - Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems

What Is The Role

We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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.

What You Bring

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Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary ranges are :

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. In addition to cash compensation, this role is eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program, and the total rewards package includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with other benefits.

We take care of our people with a holistic approach to well-being and strive for parity of benefits across regions. Benefits may vary by location.

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by law. We provide accommodations during the application process upon request at

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