Senior Java Software Engineer (Search Inference, Platform)

Join our Elasticsearch team as a Senior Java Software Engineer. You will drive the development of the Inference API, which integrates Elasticsearch with external machine learning services. Your work will involve maintaining and developing the plugin framework and REST API, building and maintaining integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, and contributing to the internal architecture of the inference plugin. You will also review open source contributions, participate in on-call rotation, and write thorough tests. Enjoy benefits such as fully paid health coverage, flexible location and schedule, generous vacation days, parental leave, volunteer time, and charitable giving matching.

• Contribuer au développement et à la maintenance de l'API d'inférence et du cadre de plugin, en travaillant sur la conception des protocoles, l'exécution asynchrone, et l'intégration de la facturation.
• Construire et maintenir des intégrations avec des systèmes internes et des fournisseurs d'inférence externes, y compris la négociation de schéma et la normalisation des erreurs.
• Participer à la rotation d'appel pour les incidents liés à l'inférence, et écrire des tests approfondis pour assurer la qualité du code.

• Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and the ability to reason through trade-offs
• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication
• You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc
• 5+ years of production Java experience, with experience contributing to a large, established Java codebase. You know core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features
• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
• Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc.), with a strong preference for Gradle experience
• Experience with ML systems
• Contributions to and ownership of open source projects
• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc