Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Ireland
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 85,600 - 135,500 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Java","Concurrency","Distributed systems","Netty","JDK","Lucene","Data stores","SQL"]

Senior Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch Distributed Systems team, focusing on scaling, performance, and resilience. You’ll improve index/concurrency across multiple machines, maintain cluster coordination, push shard/node scalability, investigate performance/concurrency issues, and support engineers on hard problems in a highly distributed environment.

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Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch Distributed Systems team, focusing on scaling, performance, and resilience. You’ll improve index/concurrency across multiple machines, maintain cluster coordination, push shard/node scalability, investigate performance/concurrency issues, and support engineers on hard problems in a highly distributed environment.
Location: Ireland
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

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, preserving safety and liveness.
  • •Push the limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle today.
  • •Investigate performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
  • •Support our engineers with challenging problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 85,600 - 135,500 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveVolunteer HoursDonations Matching

Key Requirements

  • •Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • •Strong core Java skills, familiarity with standard data structures and concurrency constructs, and knowledge of newer language features.
  • •Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
  • •Experience understanding and working on complex, highly distributed systems.
  • •Ability to build and debug features with broad impact, running on multiple machines and own projects end-to-end.
Experience:Distributed systemsConsensus algorithmsJavaConcurrency
Skills:JavaConcurrencyDistributed systemsNettyJDKLuceneData storesSQL
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaNettyLuceneJDKDistributed systemsConcurrencyElasticsearch

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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