Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

What Is The Role

Principal Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team focusing on scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering.

Responsibilities

• Leverage deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate core pieces of the next‑generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.
• Improve Elasticsearch's components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain the cluster coordination system to keep performance high even as nodes come and go and data moves around, while maintaining safety and liveness properties of the system.
• Push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues, proposing solutions.
• Support support engineers with harder problems.