Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems - Elasticsearch

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Improve Elasticsearch components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines
• ▹Maintain the cluster coordination system to keep performance high as nodes join/leave and data moves, while preserving safety and liveness properties
• ▹Push the limits of the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes Elasticsearch can handle
• ▹Investigate performance and concurrency issues and propose solutions
• ▹Support support engineers with the harder problems

Requirements

• ▹Strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms
• ▹Strong core Java skills, conversant in standard data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features
• ▹Deep technical proficiency in algorithms
• ▹Proven ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems
• ▹Ability to build and debug features with broad impact running on multiple machines
• ▹Ability to own projects end to end, including technical design and collaboration
• ▹Experience managing projects involving multiple engineers

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with data stores
• ▹Experience with search, analytics, Lucene
• ▹Strong knowledge of the JDK
• ▹Experience with asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Base salary compensation (no variable component); typical starting range 19,756,700 Ft - 31,251,900 Ft HUF
• ▹Competitive pay based on the work done, not previous salary
• ▹Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• ▹Distributed company with work-life balance and flexible location