Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems

Leveraging your deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.

• Improve Elasticsearch's components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintain our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even as nodes join and leave the cluster and data moves around, while preserving safety and liveness properties.
• Push the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Investigate performance or concurrency issues, propose solutions.
• Support our support engineers with the harder problems.
• Own operational investigations end-to-end until performance or stability issues are resolved.

• Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• Strong skills in core Java, including standard library data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
• Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems, not just using off-the-shelf services.
• Experience building and debugging complex features with broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, covering technical design and collaboration.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers.
• Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and teams, and transition between projects, codebases, or teams as business priorities shift.
• Capacity to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team via asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication., * Experience with data stores.
• Knowledge of search, analytics, and Lucene.
• Strong knowledge of the JDK.
• Experience with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: €80.400 - €127.200 EUR.

full_time

Organization PVH (Tommy Hilfiger/Calvin Klein)