Senior Java Engineer - Elasticsearch

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What they offer

€67,000 - €106,000 a year
Gross, as stated in the ad.
About €3,820 - €5,600 a month after tax, or €3,920 - €6,390 under the Beckham regime.
Fully remote
Per the ad.
Blue Card threshold
Indicative — the ad doesn’t promise sponsorship.

What they ask for

Work in English
English is required, per the ad.
Have 3+ years of experience
Senior-level role.

The role

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.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch team and focus on ensuring that the shared platform functionalities of Elasticsearch are easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure.

The team's mission is to create foundational infrastructure and shared functionality that enables engineers to develop, extend, and support Elasticsearch. The team owns common functionality such as services, settings, and scripting, and makes Elasticsearch extensible through plugins or the Painless scripting language. The team also makes Elasticsearch observable by providing logging and telemetry information. We also own the orchestration of Elasticsearch in serverless, the CI/CD workflows, and enable Elasticsearch developers to deliver Elasticsearch to customers - serverless, cloud, and on-premise alike.

You will be a strong individual contributor on the team, but you will also contribute to and lead cross-team projects. We need someone who has great design skills, who can work at a low level of abstraction but can equally drive and communicate technical concepts across a variety of collaborators.

What you'll do

Contributing to large, impactful projects that evolve the core infrastructure that underpins Elasticsearch.
Making Elasticsearch developers more productive by identifying and developing opportunities for automation, and integrating agentic apps into development workflows.
Designing and implementing new horizontally-scalable features and APIs in Elasticsearch.
Solving difficult issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
Improving operation and observability of Elasticsearch cloud systems.
Collaborating in the open with the ES team, Elastic users, and other supporting open source projects.
Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.
Owning operational investigations end-to-end, until performance or stability issues are successfully resolved.

Requirements

What we're looking for

Experience crafting APIs and the ability to reason through tradeoffs.
Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features.
Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices (Buildkite, Argo CD, GitOps etc).
Experience leading large scale projects across engineering teams.
Willingness to dive into new issues and ask for help when you need it.
You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.
You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.
You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

Nice to have

Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc.
Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry
Knowledge of Go
Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes
Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc), with a strong preference for Gradle experience.
Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.

The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

€67.000-€106.000 EUR

How they hire

4 steps4 interviewsa task to do

Application
Recruiter screen
With a recruiter · 30 min
A short phone or Zoom introduction with the recruitment team to answer questions before formal interviews.
Department interviews
With peers, hiring manager and leadership · 45–90 min
Several rounds within your department: peer, hiring manager and leadership interviews assessing fit for the role.
Panel presentation
With a panel · 45–90 min · Not every role
Role-play scenarios or product demonstrations that simulate the job.
Technical assessment
60–90 min · Not every role
Online skills assessment or portfolio review: technical deep dive or coding exercise with a proctor.
Decision · With a recruiter

The decision may take longer when several candidates interview for the same role.
Most interviews are virtual; some roles include on-site interviews.

About Elastic

Elastic is a search and observability company known for Elasticsearch, the open-source search and analytics engine, and the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack). The company provides solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security, serving a wide range of industries globally. With a distributed workforce and a strong emphasis on open-source technology, Elastic has established itself as a key player in the data and analytics space.

In Spain, Elastic has a significant presence, particularly in Barcelona, where it operates a major engineering and sales hub. The company is known for its remote-friendly culture and flexible work environment, making it attractive to international professionals. Elastic's Spanish offices are part of its global operations, offering roles in engineering, product management, sales, and customer success, with a focus on innovation and collaboration.

Industry: Search and Observability
Founded: 2012
Employees: 1,000–5,000
Headquarters: Mountain View, USA
In Spain: Barcelona
Website: elastic.co

Good to know if you are moving

Elastic has a strong engineering presence in Barcelona, with many roles in software development and product management.
The company is known for its remote-first culture, allowing flexibility in work location.
Elastic offers a comprehensive relocation package for international hires, including visa sponsorship and support.
The company values open-source contributions, and employees are encouraged to participate in the community.
Barcelona is a major tech hub in Europe, offering a vibrant lifestyle and a growing international community.

In their own words

Additional information

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. 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.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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