Elastic - Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless
Requirements
• You have a deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms. • 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. • You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms. • You have experience building large-scale distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services. • You have experience building and debugging complex features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines. • 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 experience managing projects involving multiple engineers. • 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. • Search, analytics, Lucene • Strong knowledge of the JDK • Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty • 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
• Leveraging your deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide. • Improving Elasticsearch\u2019s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines. • Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole. • Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that Elasticsearch can handle today. • Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions. • Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems. • Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved. • 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: • \u20ac102.700\u2014\u20ac162.500 EUR","enhanced_content":null,"enhanced_requirements":null,"url":"engineering\/ireland\/principal-java-engineer-distributed-systems-serverless-elasticsearch\/8002558","owner":0,"application":"https:\/\/jobs.elastic.co\/jobs?gh_jid=8002558&gh_jid=8002558","alt_apply":null,"salary":null,"address":"Ireland","unique_identifier":"8002558","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":"2928","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":"102700","max_salary":"162500","evergreen":0,"custom_job_flags":0,"created_at":"2026-06-12T11:08:22.000000Z","custom_status":null,"custom_fields":"{\"linkedin_salary_currency\": \"EUR\"}","updated_at":"2026-07-26T03:07:35.000000Z","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. • \u20ac102.700\u2014\u20ac162.500 EUR","url_params":"?gh_jid=8002558","preserved_params":{"gh_jid":"8002558"},"gh_jid":"8002558"},"url":"\/form?gh_jid=8002558","version":"f6761fc74874a42418a4f75e34a5695c"}"> • Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch • Your consent preferences for tracking technologies
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