This role pays less than
67%
of similar roles. Most pay
$157,200–$211,200
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$166k
versus about
$184k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
Principal Java Developer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team to focus on scale, performance, and resilience within the serverless offering. This role involves tackling deep distributed systems challenges regarding how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes. You will design and operate core components for next-generation serverless features, improve concurrent indexing across multiple machines, and maintain the cluster coordination system to ensure safety and liveness as nodes fluctuate. The role requires expertise in Java, consensus algorithms, and complex data structures while utilizing AI to debug systems and optimize code. Key technical requirements include proficiency in algorithms, large-scale distributed systems, and potentially experience with Lucene, Netty, and the JDK to solve problems involving petabytes of data across massive shard counts.