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 off, and charitable donation matching.

• Conduire le développement et la maintenance de l'API d'inférence et du cadre de plugin dans Elasticsearch.
• Collaborer avec les équipes internes et les fournisseurs externes pour intégrer des systèmes d'inférence.
• Participer à la rotation d'astreinte pour les incidents liés à l'inférence et écrire des tests approfondis.

• 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 crafting ergonomic APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc
• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication
• 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
• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc
• Experience with ML systems
• Contributions to and ownership of open source projects
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc), with a strong preference for Gradle experience
• Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team