Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic
United States
Full timeUSD 133,100 - 210,600 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Java","Concurrency","Data structures","Distributed systems","Algorithms","Netty","Lucene","JDK"]

Join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team as a Principal Software Engineer I to drive scale, performance, and resilience across an Elasticsearch cluster. Own end-to-end features from design to delivery for cross-node indexing, shard coordination, and data replication, and help push the system to handle more shards, nodes, and petabytes while guiding other engineers.

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Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team as a Principal Software Engineer I to drive scale, performance, and resilience across an Elasticsearch cluster. Own end-to-end features from design to delivery for cross-node indexing, shard coordination, and data replication, and help push the system to handle more shards, nodes, and petabytes while guiding other engineers.
Location: United States
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Improve Elasticsearch components to support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
  • •Maintain and optimize cluster coordination to preserve performance as nodes join/leave and data moves around.
  • •Push the limits of shards, nodes, and petabytes handled by Elasticsearch.
  • •Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose robust solutions.
  • •Support our engineers with the more challenging problems and cross-team collaboration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 133,100 - 210,600 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveEquityParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Distributed systems background with consensus algorithms
  • •Strong Java skills and familiarity with core data structures, concurrency, and modern language features
  • •Deep 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 systemsConsensus algorithms
Skills:JavaConcurrencyData structuresDistributed systemsAlgorithmsNettyLuceneJDK
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaNettyLuceneJDKConcurrency

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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