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Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

Elastic· Platform - Elasticsearch
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Hybrid (Norway)NOK 791.3k - NOK 1251.7kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focusing on Elasticsearch scale, performance, and resilience within the Serverless offering, tackling deep distributed systems challenges across node communication, indexing, allocation, and data management.

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

  • Deep background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
  • Strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
  • Deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
  • Ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems, rather than relying on off-the-shelf services.
  • Ability to build and debug features with broad, multi-machine impact.
  • Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration.
  • Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes.
  • Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and switch between projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
  • Ability to work autonomously, drive decisions, and deliver results in a distributed team via asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

Skills

Required:distributed systemsJavaalgorithms

Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on work performed, not prior salary
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous vacation days
  • Up to $2000 matched for financial donations and service
  • Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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