Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Senior Software Developer – Elasticsearch – Distributed Systems team.

Responsibilities

• Improve Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain the cluster coordination system to keep performance high while nodes join or leave the cluster, ensuring safety and liveness.
• Push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Investigate performance, concurrency, and other issues, and propose solutions.
• Support the support engineers with harder problems.

Qualifications

• Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java, including the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distr...