Elasticsearch - Java Engineer II - Distributed Systems

Elasticsearch - Java Engineer II - Distributed Systems Elastic Urban Trust Bank 04 June 2025 Elasticsearch Java Distributed Systems Algorithms Concurrency We are seeking a Software Engineer II to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team, focusing on the scale, performance, and resilience of Elasticsearch. This team is responsible for node communication within an Elasticsearch cluster and how data is indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes. What You Will Be Doing: Improving Elasticsearch’s 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. Investigating performance or concurrency issues and proposing solutions. Supporting our Support Engineers with complex problems. What You Bring: A background in Distributed Systems. Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas. Deep technical proficiency in algorithms. Ability to understand and contribute to the development of Distributed Systems. Excellent practical judgment, including prioritization, collaboration, and independent work. Ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines. Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. Bonus Points: Experience with Data stores Experience with Search, analytics, Lucene Strong knowledge of the JDK Experience with Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty 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 Matching for financial donations and service (up to $2000 or local currency equivalent) Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave How to Apply Interested in this position? Please submit your resume and cover letter through the application portal. #J-18808-Ljbffr Elastic Urban Trust Bank