Senior Java Engineer - Core / Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Portugal
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 55,800 - 88,300Function: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Ownership","Autonomy","Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration"]

Join the Elasticsearch Platform team to build shared core infrastructure and functionality that makes Elasticsearch easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure. You’ll design and implement scalable features and APIs, improve automation and developer productivity, enhance observability for cloud systems, and resolve complex performance and concurrency issues. As a strong individual contributor, you’ll also lead cross-team projects across serverless, cloud, and on-prem environments.

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Senior Java Engineer - Core / Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Join the Elasticsearch Platform team to build shared core infrastructure and functionality that makes Elasticsearch easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure. You’ll design and implement scalable features and APIs, improve automation and developer productivity, enhance observability for cloud systems, and resolve complex performance and concurrency issues. As a strong individual contributor, you’ll also lead cross-team projects across serverless, cloud, and on-prem environments.
Location: Portugal
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to impactful projects evolving the core infrastructure that underpins Elasticsearch.
  • •Design and implement horizontally-scalable features and APIs.
  • •Improve operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
  • •Solve difficult performance or concurrency issues and propose solutions.
  • •Own operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 55,800 - 88,300
Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeavePaid LeaveVolunteer TimeDonation Match

Key Requirements

  • •Experience crafting APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
  • •Proficiency in core Java, including data structures and concurrency constructs.
  • •Hands-on experience with low-level Java topics such as concurrency, parallelism, and classloaders.
  • •Experience with CI/CD systems and practices (e.g., Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps).
  • •Ability to lead large-scale projects across engineering teams.
Experience:ElasticsearchOpen sourceCloudServerlessDeveloper tools
Skills:OwnershipAutonomyCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaboration
Tech Stack:JavaElasticsearchPainlessCI/CDBuildkiteArgo CDGitOpsOpenTelemetryGoKubernetesContainersGradleMavenJDKModulesJava memory modelGarbage collectionTelemetryLogging

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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