This role pays less than
62%
of similar roles. Most pay
$157,200–$218,075
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$172k
versus about
$188k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
Senior 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 a cluster communicate and how data is indexed, allocated, and managed across those 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. Candidates must possess deep expertise in distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and core Java, including standard library data structures and concurrency constructs. Technical proficiency in algorithms is required. The role involves solving complex problems related to shard limits and petabyte-scale management while utilizing AI to accelerate development and optimize code within the search and analytics domain.