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$169,050–$230,550
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$206k
versus about
$200k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
52 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 52 roles with salary data.
The Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team to enhance scale, performance, and resilience for the Serverless offering. This role involves designing and operating core components for next-generation serverless features, specifically focusing on how nodes in a cluster communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed. Key responsibilities include maintaining the cluster coordination system to ensure safety and liveness while handling high volumes of shards and petabytes of data. The candidate must possess deep expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java, including data structures and concurrency constructs. Required skills include technical proficiency in algorithms and experience building large-scale distributed systems. Knowledge of Lucene, Netty, and asynchronous event-driven network frameworks is also preferred.