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Elastic

Searches enterprise data and monitors systems

Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra, Elasticsearch

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeUnited States$133.1k - $252.9kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
  • Proficiency in algorithms and data structures.
  • Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with the standard library's data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
  • Experience with low-level Java topics such as concurrency, parallelism, and classloaders.
  • Knowledge of JDK internals, including modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, and caching techniques.
  • Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams.
  • Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
  • A proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning the final outcomes.
  • Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
  • Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team through asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
  • Identify and develop automation opportunities and integrate agentic applications into development workflows to improve Elasticsearch developer productivity.
  • Design and implement new horizontally scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
  • Solve difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and propose solutions.
  • Improve the operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
  • Collaborate openly with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic users, and supporting open-source projects.
  • Support support engineers with difficult problems.
  • Own operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices such as Buildkite, Argo CD, or GitOps.
  • Knowledge of Java build tools such as Gradle and Maven; Gradle experience is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry.
  • Knowledge of Go.
  • Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.

About the Company

Elastic

Searches enterprise data and monitors systems

Elastic builds search, observability and security software for developers, IT operations teams and security analysts. Elasticsearch indexes enterprise data so applications can retrieve records, while Kibana gives teams dashboards for exploring results and investigating system activity. Customers use the tools to search business information, monitor applications and infrastructure, and investigate threats across their data. Elastic sells managed cloud services and self-managed subscriptions, with resource-based hosted pricing, usage-based serverless pricing and licenses tied to nodes and memory. Founded in 2012, Elastic lists San Francisco, California, as its headquarters.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2012

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