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Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic· Platform - Elasticsearch
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Remote$133.1k - $210.6kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team, focusing on core infrastructure, shared platform functionalities, and observability to enable easy, performant, maintainable, and secure Elasticsearch development across serverless, cloud, and on-premise deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure that underpins Elasticsearch.
  • Making Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying and developing opportunities for automation, and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.
  • Designing and implementing new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
  • Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
  • Improving operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
  • Collaborating in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other supporting open source projects.
  • Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
  • Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.

Qualifications

  • Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
  • Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
  • Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with standard data structures and concurrency constructs, plus newer language features.
  • Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps etc).
  • Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.
  • Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when needed.
  • Ability to own projects from beginning to end, including technical design and cross-team 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 seamlessly transition between projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
  • Ability to work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team using asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

Skills

Required:APIs designAlgorithms and data structuresCore JavaLow-level Java conceptsCI/CDProject leadershipAI-assisted developmentCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Stock program participation eligible; company-matched 401k 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 number of vacation days.
  • Volunteer time off (up to 40 hours/year).
  • Parental leave minimum of 16 weeks.
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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