Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Greece
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 73,300 - 115,900 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Problem-solving","Communication"]

Lead development of distributed systems components within Elasticsearch to improve scalable indexing, cluster coordination, and data replication. Drive multi-engineer projects from design to delivery, tackling performance, concurrency, and scale challenges across large clusters, with emphasis on fault tolerance and high availability.

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Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Lead development of distributed systems components within Elasticsearch to improve scalable indexing, cluster coordination, and data replication. Drive multi-engineer projects from design to delivery, tackling performance, concurrency, and scale challenges across large clusters, with emphasis on fault tolerance and high availability.
Location: Greece
Workplace: Onsite
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 to keep performance high as nodes join/leave and data moves, while preserving safety and liveness properties.
  • •Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle.
  • •Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
  • •Support our engineers with the harder problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 73,300 - 115,900 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveDonations MatchingVolunteer Hours

Key Requirements

  • •Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • •Strong Java skills and familiarity with core data structures, concurrency, and newer language features.
  • •Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
  • •Proven ability to understand and work on highly distributed systems.
  • •Ability to own projects from start to finish and lead multiple engineers.
Experience:Distributed systemsOpen sourceSearch
Skills:LeadershipProblem-solvingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaNettyLuceneJDKElasticsearchDistributed systemsConcurrency

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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