pul liWe are on the lookout for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering /li liYou will be tackling deep distributed systems challenges in how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes /li liLeveraging your deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide /li liImproving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines /li liMaintaining 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 /li liPushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today /li liLooking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions /li liSupporting our support engineers with the harder problems /li liOwning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved /li /ul h3Benefits /h3 ul liToast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations. /li liCraft your calendar: Adaptable location and schedule for most roles. /li liCreate space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year. /li liEmbrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave,



plus generous family formation benefits. /li liGive back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about. /li liAmplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent). /li /ul ul liYou have experience building large-scale distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services /li liYou have a deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms /li liYou have experience managing projects involving multiple engineers /li liYou have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms /li liYou have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes /li liYou possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities /li liYou 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 /li liYou are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components /li liYou have experience building and debugging complex features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines /li liYou can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication /li liAsynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty /li liStrong knowledge of the JDK /li liSearch, analytics, Lucene /li liData stores /li /ul /p #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Principal Java Engineer (Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch) (Madrid)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Madrid