Principal Engineer

Who you are

• Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs
• Proficient in algorithms and data structures
• Knowledge of low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc
• Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams
• Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when you need it
• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc
• Knowledge of low level primitives such as JNI (Java Native Interface), JNA (Java Native Access), ByteBuddy, ASM, bytecode, FFI (Foreign Function Interface), and FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API)
• Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes

What the job involves

• We are on the lookout for a Principal Java Engineer to join our Elasticsearch Core Infra team
• The mission of the Elasticsearch Core/Infra team is to create the foundational infrastructure that enables engineers to develop, extend and support Elasticsearch
• The team owns common functionality such as services, settings and scripting, and makes Elasticsearch extensible through plugins or the Painless scripting language
• The team also makes Elasticsearch observable by providing logging and telemetry information
• You will 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 communicate technical concepts across a variety of collaborators
• Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure that underpins Elasticsearch
• Shaping how Elasticsearch runs in Elastic Cloud
• Designing and implementing new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch
• Understanding and contributing to surrounding layers such as replication and search
• Optimizing internal data structures used within Elasticsearch
• Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions
• Collaborating in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other supporting open source projects
• Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems
• Helping to drive our long term technical strategy in relation to changes in the JDK and other core dependencies

Benefits

• Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
• Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
• Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
• Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
• Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
• Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)