Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 133,100 - 210,600 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Design skills","Ability to communicate technical concepts","Collaboration","Autonomous ownership","Distributed-team communication"]

Build and evolve the shared platform infrastructure that powers Elasticsearch, focusing on performant, maintainable, and secure core capabilities. Design and implement horizontally scalable features and APIs, improve cloud operations and observability, and support end-to-end investigations for performance and stability issues. Collaborate across teams and in the open while partnering with developer productivity efforts through automation and agentic apps.

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Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Build and evolve the shared platform infrastructure that powers Elasticsearch, focusing on performant, maintainable, and secure core capabilities. Design and implement horizontally scalable features and APIs, improve cloud operations and observability, and support end-to-end investigations for performance and stability issues. Collaborate across teams and in the open while partnering with developer productivity efforts through automation and agentic apps.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to large projects that evolve the core infrastructure underpinning Elasticsearch.
  • •Design and implement horizontally scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
  • •Solve hard performance and concurrency issues and propose solutions.
  • •Improve the operations and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
  • •Own operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 133,100 - 210,600 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
  • •Proficiency with algorithms and data structures.
  • •Strong core Java skills, including standard library data structures and concurrency constructs, plus newer language features.
  • •Hands-on low-level Java experience (e.g., concurrency, parallelism, classloaders).
  • •Hands-on CI/CD experience with systems and practices such as Buildkite, Argo CD, and GitOps.
Skills:Design skillsAbility to communicate technical conceptsCollaborationAutonomous ownershipDistributed-team communication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaElasticsearchPainlessCI/CDBuildkiteArgo CDGitOpsOpenTelemetryGoContainersKubernetesGradleMaven

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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