Principal Software Engineer II (Elasticsearch)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer II (hirify.globalsearch): Focuses on how hirify.globalsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience for the Distributed Systems team. Focus on improving hirify.globalsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines and maintaining cluster coordination system to keep performance high.

Location: United States, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden

Salary: $199,700—$379,300 USD

Company

hirify.global, 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.

What you will do

• Improving hirify.globalsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
• Maintaining our cluster coordination system to keep performance high even though nodes come and go from the cluster and data moves around, while maintaining the safety and liveness properties of the system as a whole.
• Pushing the limits on the number of shards, nodes, and petabytes that hirify.globalsearch can handle today.
• Looking into all kinds of issues, including performance or concurrency issues, and proposing solutions.
• Supporting our support engineers with the harder problems.

Requirements

• A strong background in distributed systems and consensus algorithms.
• 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.
• You have a deep technical proficiency in algorithms.
• You have shown your ability to understand and work on complex, highly distributed systems.
• You demonstrate the ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• You are able to own projects from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with others to develop needed components.

Nice to have

• Data stores
• Search, analytics, Lucene
• Strong knowledge of the JDK
• Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks such as Netty

Culture & Benefits

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave