Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.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, especially in the context of our Serverless offering. You 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.What You Will Be Doing:Leveraging your distributed systems expertise to build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.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.Owning operational investigations end-to-end,



until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.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.

You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.Bonus Points:Data storesSearch, analytics, LuceneStrong knowledge of the JDKAsynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salaryHealth coverage for you and your family in many locationsAbility to craft your calendar with adaptable locations and schedules for many rolesGenerous number of vacation days each yearIncrease your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and serviceUp to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you loveEmbracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leaveDifferent people approach problems differently. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia).

📌 Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch (Madrid)
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