Principal Software Engineer I - Distributed Systems
Company: Elastic
Location: San Diego
Posted on: January 7, 2026
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Job Description:
We are on the lookout for a Principal Software Engineer I to
join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how
Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience. This
team owns how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and
how data are indexed, allocated, and replicated across nodes DUTIES
• 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 WHAT YOU BRING • A strong 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. • 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 experience managing projects involving
multiple engineers BONUS • Data stores • Search, analytics, Lucene
• Strong knowledge of the JDK • Asynchronous event-driven network
frameworks such as Netty
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