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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.
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Principal Java Engineer - 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 communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across clusters. The engineer will build core components for next-generation serverless features, improve concurrent indexing across multiple machines, and maintain cluster coordination systems to ensure safety and liveness as data moves. Key responsibilities include resolving performance or concurrency issues and leading operational investigations. Required skills include expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java, including the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs. The role requires proficiency in algorithms and experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than using off-the-shelf services to solve complex infrastructure problems.