Elastic

Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Global / Remote

Principal

REMOTE

Elastic is hiring a Principal Java Engineer to join the Elasticsearch Distributed Systems team, with a focus on scale, performance, and resilience for their Serverless offering. You will work on deep distributed systems challenges including cluster coordination, concurrent indexing, shard and node management, and petabyte-scale data handling. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strong core Java skills, expertise in distributed systems and consensus algorithms, and the ability to own complex projects end-to-end in a globally distributed team.

Java

Distributed Systems

Consensus Algorithms

Concurrency

Algorithms

Cluster Coordination

Large-Scale System Design

Performance Debugging

Asynchronous Programming

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