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# Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems

- **Company:** Elastic
- **Location:** Spain
- **Salary:** €80,400.0 - €127,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Apache Lucene, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Search Technologies, Systems Architecture
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/e5aaa85b118b4af9a07ea2114dbcf4e3e

## About the Role

* deep expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java, with experience in large-scale system design and debugging
 * Strong algorithmic skills, project ownership capabilities, and cross-team collaboration are essential, * knowledge of data stores, search technologies like Lucene, and asynchronous frameworks such as Netty

## Description

* improving indexing performance
 * maintaining system resilience
 * scaling shard and node limits
 * resolving complex performance and stability issues


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