Senior Java Engineer - Remote

Overview

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

In Short

• Working on large impactful projects that evolve the developer workflows for Elasticsearch engineers enabling them to be as productive and efficient as possible.
• Shaping our build and continuous integration environments.
• Design and build tooling and automation for Elasticsearch development.
• Driving strategy for how Elasticsearch deploys in the cloud.
• Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
• Collaborating in the open with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic users, and other supporting open source projects.

Requirements

• Experience contributing to and managing large Java codebases.
• Knowledge of CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps etc).
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, Bazel etc), with a strong preference for Gradle experience.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux and shell scripting.
• Experience of container runtimes (e.g. Docker) and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
• A high level of autonomy. The distributed nature of the company offers freedom to work when and how you see fit, but also requires team members to work independently, and reach out for help when stuck.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.