Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems & Scaling

What is The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch – Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Improving Elasticsearch's components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining the cluster coordination system to keep performance high despite nodes joining and leaving, while preserving safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today.
• Investigating performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions.
• Supporting support engineers with more complex problems.

What You Bring:

• A strong backg...