Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems (15h Left)

Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems
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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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. 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 Principal Software Engineer I to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.

What You Will Be Doing

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 move 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.

What You Bring

A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.

Strong skills in core Java and a command of the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.

A deep technical proficiency in algorithms.

Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.

Demonstrated ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.

Ownership of projects from beginning to end, covering both technical design and collaboration with others.

Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.

Bonus Points

Data stores.

Search, analytics, Lucene.

Strong knowledge of the JDK.

Asynchronous event‑driven network frameworks such as Netty.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for this role is $199,700—$315,900 USD (or $239,800—$379,300 USD in select locations).

Benefits

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.

Generous number of vacation days each year.

Matching up to $2 000 for financial donations and service.

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.

Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Elastic is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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