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
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
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems
Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved
Benefits

Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
Craft your calendar: Versátil location and schedule for most roles.
Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.
Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed

📌 Senior Java Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Madrid