Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Greece
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 61,100 - 96,600 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Java","Concurrency","Data structures","Algorithms","Distributed systems","Netty","JDK","Lucene"]

Senior software engineer specializing in distributed systems, focusing on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. You’ll work on concurrent indexing, cluster coordination, data distribution, and multi-machine features, owning projects end-to-end and collaborating with support and engineering teams to tackle complex, high-impact problems.

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Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Senior software engineer specializing in distributed systems, focusing on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. You’ll work on concurrent indexing, cluster coordination, data distribution, and multi-machine features, owning projects end-to-end and collaborating with support and engineering teams to tackle complex, high-impact problems.
Location: Greece
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
  • •Maintain cluster coordination to keep performance high as nodes join/leave and data moves, while preserving safety and liveness properties.
  • •Push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle today.
  • •Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose robust solutions.
  • •Support our support engineers with the harder problems and drive end-to-end ownership of features.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 61,100 - 96,600 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • •Strong core Java skills with knowledge of data structures, concurrency, and modern language features.
  • •Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
  • •Experience building and debugging features with broad impact across multiple machines.
  • •Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration with others.
Experience:Distributed systemsJavaConsensus algorithmsHighly distributed systems
Skills:JavaConcurrencyData structuresAlgorithmsDistributed systemsNettyJDKLucene
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaNettyElasticsearchLuceneJDKConcurrency

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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