Senior Software Engineer - Query Engine, Database Internals - Elasticsearch

Elastic · United Statessenior

In short

▸Ingeniero de software senior que construye y optimiza motores de análisis en Elasticsearch, con enfoque en eficiencia y escalabilidad.
▸Trabajas remoto con equipo global, diseñando features nuevos, resolviendo bugs complejos y mejorando código en Java.
▸Destacado: creas funcionalidades de análisis utilizando ES|QL, un lenguaje de consulta nuevo y potente en el corazón de Elasticsearch.

Required: strong written and verbal English skills to collaborate globally.

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What they ask for

✓Experto en Java de alto rendimiento, con dominio de estructuras de datos y concurrencia.
✓Experiencia comprobada en ingeniería de sistemas y optimización algorítmica.
✓Capacidad para liderar proyectos técnicos desde el diseño hasta la implementación.
✓Habilidades de colaboración autónoma en equipos distribuidos y trabajo remoto.
✓Experiencia con código de alto rendimiento, incluyendo optimización de bajo nivel.
✓Comunicación efectiva con la comunidad de usuarios y contribuyentes externos.

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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. What is The Role We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Analytical Engine team. This globally-distributed, completely remote team of senior engineers is responsible for building new analytics capabilities in Elasticsearch’s latest aggregation framework based on a completely new compute engine, and accessed via our new piped query language called ES|QL . This is a senior software engineering role that covers the design and implementation of new features, enhancements to existing features, and resolving bugs. Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable, and intuitive software. We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements. What You Will Be Doing • You'll be a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, building data-intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. You are able to research what available data structures and algorithms work best to implement a new functionality or enhancement. Sometimes you’ll need to implement a data structure or algorithm in the code base. And there will be times when you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware. • You’ll work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the search and query (ES|QL) analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch. You’ll get to work with the teams that build the UI to ensure a good user experience, and you’ll get to work with the teams building solutions on top of these APIs • You'll be an expert in several areas of Elasticsearch, and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about them. You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts. • You'll work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts, and sometimes handling them yourself. • You'll write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java! What You Bring • You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas. • You have experience with software systems engineering • You have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms. • You work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components. • You're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code, approaches, and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus point

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