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Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic· Platform - Elasticsearch
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Hybrid (Canada)CA$128.3k - CA$203kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Developer on the Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team focusing on scale, performance, and resilience in the Serverless offering; tackling deep distributed systems challenges around node communication, indexing, allocation, and data management across nodes.

Responsibilities

  • Leveraging distributed systems expertise to build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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 shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, rather than making use of off-the-shelf services.
  • You demonstrate the ability to build and debug 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 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.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsCore JavaAlgorithmsDebugging and performance optimization across distributed systems

Benefits

  • Elastic stock program eligibility
  • Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous vacation days
  • Company donor matching up to 2000 CAD (or local currency equivalent) for charitable donations
  • Up to 40 hours per year for volunteering
  • Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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