Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer I to join their Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on improving Elasticsearch's performance, resilience, and data indexing across distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines
- Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the 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
- Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions
- Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems
Skills
- A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms
- You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features
- You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms
- You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems
- You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines
- You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components
- You have experience managing projects involving multiple engineers
- Data stores
- Search, analytics, Lucene
- Strong knowledge of the JDK
- Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty
Benefits
- Elastic's stock program
- Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company Overview
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.elastic.co.Company H1B Sponsorship
Elastic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.