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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 will join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team to focus on scale, performance, and resilience within a serverless offering. The role involves tackling deep distributed systems challenges regarding how nodes communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across clusters. Key responsibilities include building components for concurrent indexing, maintaining cluster coordination systems, and resolving complex performance or concurrency issues. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java, including the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs. Technical requirements include proficiency in algorithms, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and familiarity with tools like Netty, Lucene, and the JDK. This role addresses critical infrastructure problems involving high-volume data management across multiple machines to ensure system safety and liveness.