This role pays more than
61%
of similar roles. Most pay
$165,650–$223,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$206k
versus about
$195k
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
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team to focus on scale, performance, and resilience for the company's 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. 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 concurrency constructs and advanced algorithms. Candidates should have experience building large-scale distributed systems rather than using off-the-shelf services. Preferred skills include knowledge of Lucene, the JDK, and Netty for asynchronous event-driven network frameworks.