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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 in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes. You 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. The position requires expertise in Java, consensus algorithms, and complex data structures while utilizing tools like Netty or Lucene. Candidates must possess strong algorithmic skills to solve performance issues and manage large-scale systems involving petabytes of data. This role addresses technical challenges in distributed infrastructure for search and analytics platforms.