Principal Software Developer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Canada
Full timeCAD 128,300 - 203,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Java","Concurrency","Data structures","Distributed systems","Netty"]

Lead development for Elasticsearch distributed systems, focusing on scalable, high-performance indexing, cluster coordination, and data replication across nodes. Own end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and tackle performance and concurrency challenges to push shard/node/petabyte capabilities while supporting the team with complex problem solving.

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Principal Software Developer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Lead development for Elasticsearch distributed systems, focusing on scalable, high-performance indexing, cluster coordination, and data replication across nodes. Own end-to-end projects, mentor engineers, and tackle performance and concurrency challenges to push shard/node/petabyte capabilities while supporting the team with complex problem solving.
Location: Canada
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Improve Elasticsearch components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
  • •Maintain cluster coordination system to keep performance high as nodes join/leave and data moves around.
  • •Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
  • •Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
  • •Support our support engineers with the harder problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 128,300 - 203,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveRrsp MatchingEquityVolunteer HoursParental LeaveDonations Matching

Key Requirements

  • •Distributed systems background with consensus algorithms
  • •Strong core Java skills and familiarity with data structures and concurrency constructs
  • •Deep technical proficiency in algorithms
  • •Experience understanding and working on highly distributed systems
  • •Ability to own projects from design to delivery and lead multi-engineer efforts
Experience:Distributed systemsSearchCloud computing
Skills:JavaConcurrencyData structuresDistributed systemsNetty
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaNettyConcurrenyJDKDistributed Systems

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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