Senior Software Engineer, Elastic

• Requires solid software development skills, and more importantly, a sharp mind and the ability to think like a user
• Strong on Java in general, including concurrency concepts and the standard library of data structures
• Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when you need it
• Experience deploying and operationalizing software in production
• Experience leading projects involving multiple engineers
• Ability to plan, design, implement, and lead projects independently
• Experience with the ELK stack
• Basic knowledge in any relational database with a preference for Postgres
• Good communication skills

Desirable

• Right now, we are on the lookout for a talented Java Engineer to join our Elasticsearch opex team and focus on understanding Elasticsearch performance, optimization, and best practices for the production environment
• You'll be designing and implementing new horizontally scalable features and APIs in our product
• Optimizing internal data structures used to understand Elasticsearch under the hood
• Create new workflow pipeline
• Tackling difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions
• Collaborating in the open with the Elasticsearch team, Elastic support engineers, and others
• Make our customers and our support engineers greater