Principal Java Engineer (Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch)

Join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team as a Principal Software Engineer. You will tackle deep distributed systems challenges, design and build core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, and improve Elasticsearch's components for concurrent and consistent indexing. You will also maintain our cluster coordination system, push the limits on the number of shards and nodes, and support our support engineers with complex problems.

• Conception, construction, and operation of core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering.
• Improvement of Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Ownership of operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.
• You have experience building large-scale distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services
• You have a deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms
• You have experience managing projects involving multiple engineers
• You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms
• You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes
• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
• You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features
• You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components
• You have experience building and debugging complex features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines
• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty
• Strong knowledge of the JDK
• Search, analytics, Lucene
• Data stores