Senior Java Developer

Description:

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join its Elasticsearch team. Elastic’s platform is trusted by over half of the Fortune 500 and combines the power of AI and search to deliver real-time answers from vast structured and unstructured data. This role offers the opportunity to work on highly distributed systems, advanced analytics, and innovative new technologies while collaborating across a fully remote, global team.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Elasticsearch, you will focus on building scalable features, improving system performance, addressing concurrency challenges, and contributing directly to the open-source community. The role emphasizes independence, collaboration, and high-quality code delivery, with opportunities to design algorithms, optimize systems, and enhance Elasticsearch’s new query language (ES|QL).

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute full-time to Elasticsearch development, creating new features, fixing complex bugs, and improving testing coverage.

• Design and implement advanced algorithms, data structures, and storage solutions.

• Work closely with hardware and operating system-level optimizations when needed.

• Tackle performance, scaling, and concurrency issues.

• Collaborate openly with Elastic’s distributed team, community members, and supporting projects through GitHub and other channels.

• Partner with support engineers to resolve difficult technical challenges.

• Write modern, idiomatic Java (Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java).

Job Requirements:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong expertise in Java, including data structures, concurrency, and algorithms.

• 2+ years in areas such as vector search, search engine development, query language implementation, or building storage-efficient solutions.

• Experience troubleshooting complex, large-scale systems.

• Familiarity with databases and search/storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a distributed team environment.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with Elasticsearch.

• Leadership experience in cross-functional initiatives.

• Open-source contributions and familiarity with CI/CD workflows.

• Background in OS or cloud service development.

Job Benefits:

• Competitive salary and eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.

• Company-matched Retirement Savings Plan (up to 6% of eligible earnings).

• Comprehensive health coverage for employees and families.

• Generous vacation allowances and flexible work schedules.

• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

• $2000 donation/service matching program.

• Up to 40 hours annually for volunteering.

• A supportive, diverse, and inclusive remote work culture.