Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - ElasticsearchActive$46K–$183K

The opportunity

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the…

What you'll do

  • Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure that underpins Elasticsearch.

  • Making Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying and developing: opportunities for automation, and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.

  • Designing and implementing new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.

  • Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.

  • Improving operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.

  • Collaborating in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other supporting open source projects.

What they're looking for

  • Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
  • Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.
  • Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
  • Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
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