Overview

Founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene open source projects, Elastic provides real-time insights and makes massive amounts of structured and unstructured data usable for developers and enterprises. By focusing on scalability, ease-of-use, and ease-of-integration, the Elastic stack – comprised of open source technologies like Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana – powers many of the world’s leading mobile, social, consumer and business applications. Since its initial release, the Elastic stack has achieved more than 20 million cumulative downloads, and today, Elastic is backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and NEA with headquarters in Amsterdam and Mountain View, California, and offices and employees around the world.

Do you want to work on distributed search and analytics software which impacts the lives of millions of people? We are looking for outstanding Java engineers with security experience who love solving problems. We’re not interested in your previous job title. Instead, we are looking for bright people with a good knowledge of Java and a desire to take on new challenges.

Engineering Philosophy

Engineering a highly complex distributed system that is easy to operate via elegantly designed APIs is a non-trivial effort. It requires solid software development skills, and more importantly, a sharp mind and the ability to think like a user. We also care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you’re working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible in our organization. At Elastic, we effectively don’t have a hierarchy to speak of. We feel that anyone needs to be in the position to comment on absolutely anything, regardless of their role within the company.

Right now, we are looking to add a talented Java Engineer to join our Elasticsearch team and focussing on Security.

Could you answer most of these questions?

  • When would you make a variable volatile?
  • How do you decide whether to use a HashMap or a TreeMap?
  • How do you decide whether to use a CopyOnWriteArrayList or a Collections.synchronizedList(ArrayList)?
  • When would you use mergesort over quicksort?
  • When might recursion cause stack overflows?
  • Is Math.abs(Random.nextInt()) always positive?
  • What are the pros/cons of async vs. blocking I/O?
  • What unit tests would you write for Arrays.binarySearch?

These are the kinds of problems you will work on:

  • Design and implement new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch and X-Pack.
  • Integrate new features from Lucene
  • Improve existing APIs to make them address more use-cases while keeping their surface area contained.
  • Look into all kind of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and propose solutions.
  • Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

Experience in these areas is a plus:

  • Security, LDAP, SAML, Kerberos
  • Distributed systems, networking
  • Search, analytics, Lucene
  • Systems integration, JVM debugging

Additional Information

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Stock options
  • Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
  • An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
  • Passionate people building great products
  • Employees with a wide variety of interests
  • Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
  • Distributed-first company with employees in over 35 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages! Some even fly south for the winter 🙂

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.