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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 in a cluster communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes. The engineer will build 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 data moves. Key requirements include expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java, including standard library data structures and concurrency constructs. Candidates should possess strong algorithmic skills and experience building large-scale systems rather than using off-the-shelf services. Preferred technical knowledge includes Lucene, the JDK, and Netty for asynchronous event-driven network frameworks.