Elastic - Senior Java Software Engineer
Requirements
• 5+ years of production Java experience, with experience contributing to a large, established Java codebase. You know core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features. • Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs. • Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc. • 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. • Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc. • Contributions to and ownership of open source projects • Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc), with a strong preference for Gradle experience. • Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team • Additional 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 benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations • Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles • Generous number of vacation days each year • Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service • Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love • Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Responsibilities
• Build and maintain integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, including schema negotiation, streaming (SSE), and error normalisation • Contribute to the inference plugin's internal architecture: task settings, chunking strategies, rate limiting, and provider-level configuration • Review open source contributions to the codebase and work with third party engineers to ensure their contributions meet our technology standards • Participate in on-call rotation for inference-related incidents • Write thorough tests: unit tests using ESTestCase, YAML-based REST integration tests, and rolling-upgrade tests • The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position. • The typical starting salary range for this role is: • \u20ac55.800\u2014\u20ac88.300 EUR","enhanced_content":null,"enhanced_requirements":null,"url":"engineering\/portugal\/senior-java-software-engineer-search-inference-platform-\/8259085","owner":0,"application":"https:\/\/jobs.elastic.co\/jobs?gh_jid=8259085&gh_jid=8259085","alt_apply":null,"salary":null,"address":"Portugal","unique_identifier":"8259085","category":"Engineering","subdivision":"Engineering","bitly_url":null,"jobvite_id":"elastic","google_id":null,"team_name":"Engineering","hiring_manager":null,"closed":null,"internal_id":null,"remote_locations":null,"hybrid_locations":null,"requirements":null,"facility_type":null,"job_code":"R12428","internal_ghapply_id":null,"location_id":null,"template_id":139,"legacy_template_id":"0","synopsys_country":null,"job_type":"Onsite","closingHtml":null,"live":1,"manual":0,"edited":1,"share":0,"locked":1,"favorite":0,"fetch":0,"templatized":true,"published":0,"featured":0,"well_written":0,"map":0,"remote":0,"vid":0,"pcu":0,"linkedin":0,"min_salary":"55800","max_salary":"88300","evergreen":0,"custom_job_flags":0,"created_at":"2026-10-06T16:13:36.000000Z","custom_status":null,"custom_fields":"{\"linkedin_salary_currency\": \"EUR\"}","updated_at":"2026-10-09T01:13:05.000000Z","deleted_at":null,"templating_disabled":false},"content":" • Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale \u2014 unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data \u2014 securing and protecting private information more effectively \u2014 Elastic\u2019s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. • \u20ac55.800\u2014\u20ac88.300 EUR","url_params":"?gh_jid=8259085","preserved_params":{"gh_jid":"8259085"},"gh_jid":"8259085"},"url":"\/form?gh_jid=8259085","version":"768635f11100cabead10e70f32620570"}"> • Senior Java Software Engineer - Search Inference - Platform
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