Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Spain
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 80,400 - 127,200 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Teamwork","Leadership","Planning"]

Join Elastic's Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team as Principal Software Engineer I, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience. You’ll improve indexing consistency across multi-machine clusters, maintain the cluster coordination system, push shard and petabyte-scale boundaries, investigate performance and concurrency issues, and mentor support engineers while owning end-to-end technical projects that impact multiple nodes.

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Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Join Elastic's Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team as Principal Software Engineer I, focusing on scale, performance, and resilience. You’ll improve indexing consistency across multi-machine clusters, maintain the cluster coordination system, push shard and petabyte-scale boundaries, investigate performance and concurrency issues, and mentor support engineers while owning end-to-end technical projects that impact multiple nodes.
Location: Spain
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 the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle today.
  • •Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
  • •Support our support engineers with the harder problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 80,400 - 127,200 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveVolunteer TimeDonations Match

Key Requirements

  • •A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • •Strong skills in core Java and knowledge of data structures and concurrency.
  • •Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
  • •Experience understanding and working on complex, highly distributed systems.
  • •Ability to own projects from beginning to end and to mentor/lead multiple engineers.
Experience:Distributed systemsSoftware
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkLeadershipPlanning
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaNettyLuceneJDKDistributed 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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