Principal Software Engineer Ii - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch
Elastic Cloud
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
On-site
Distributed systems
Consensus algorithms
Core java
Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer II specializing in Distributed Systems for Elasticsearch, focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in distributed systems and Java, with experience in complex systems design and collaboration across teams
Job Summary
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 moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole.
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
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Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer II specializing in Distributed Systems for Elasticsearch, focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in distributed systems and Java, with experience in complex systems design and collaboration across teams.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
distributed systems
consensus algorithms
core Java
data structures
concurrency constructs
highly distributed systems
Nice-to-have
data stores
search analytics Lucene
asynchronous event-driven network frameworks
Key Requirements
strong background in distributed systems
strong skills in core Java
deep technical proficiency in algorithms
experience leading projects spanning multiple teams
experience communicating with a variety of stakeholders