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Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch
Elastic
United StatesPosted Jul 20, 2026 · 16h ago$133k – $211k
Full-time$133k – $211kSeniorRemoteSaaS
About this role
Join Elastic's Distributed Systems team as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the scale, performance, and resilience of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering. You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges related to node communication, data indexing, allocation, and management across clusters.
What we are looking for
6- Build and operate core components of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering
- Improve concurrent and consistent indexing across machines
- Maintain cluster coordination for high performance and system liveness
- Push limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes handled by Elasticsearch
- Investigate and resolve performance or concurrency issues
- Support support engineers with complex problems
Skills mentioned
1Java
