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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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Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch will join the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team to focus on scale, performance, and resilience within the company's serverless offering. The role involves tackling deep distributed systems challenges regarding how nodes in a cluster communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across those nodes. Key responsibilities include building core components for concurrent indexing, maintaining cluster coordination systems, and resolving complex performance or concurrency issues. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in consensus algorithms, advanced Java programming, and high-level proficiency in algorithms. Technical requirements include experience with the JDK, Lucene, and asynchronous event-driven network frameworks like Netty. This role addresses critical infrastructure problems involving large-scale data management, ensuring system safety and liveness while managing petabytes of data across distributed environments to support robust search and analytics capabilities.