Core/ Infra - Senior Java Engineer - Elasticsearch

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. ## What you'll do be a strong individual contributor on the team, but you will also contribute to and lead cross-team projects. We need someone who has great design skills, who can work at a low level of abstraction but can equally drive and communicate technical concepts across a variety of collaborators. What You Will Be Doing - 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. - Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems. - Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved. What You Bring  - Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs. - Proficient in algorithms and data structures. - You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features. - Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc. - Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps etc). - Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams. - Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when you need it. - You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components. - You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes. - You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities - You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication. ## What you'll bring , and the overall scope and complexity of the position. The typical starting salary range for this role is:€87.300—€138.100 EURAdditional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of …

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