Elastic · 2 hours ago
Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer II - Storage Engine
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $316K/yrElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer II to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team, responsible for delivering innovations in logs and metrics management and providing technical vision for optimized storage solutions.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead cross organizational initiatives to produce an industry-leading Timeseries solution offering
Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building data intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you’ll need to implement a data structure or algorithm in the code base. And there will be times when you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware
Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch
Be an expert in several areas of Elasticsearch and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about them. You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts
Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself
Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
Qualification
Required
You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store and query Timeseries data
You have strong technical leadership skills, work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components
You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas
You have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms
You're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software
You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too
Preferred
You've built things with Elasticsearch before
You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
Benefits
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Generous number of vacation days each year
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
Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
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