# Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch

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 are on the lookout for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Distributed Systems team and focus on how Elasticsearch provides scale, performance, and resilience, especially in the context of our Serverless offering. You will be tackling deep distributed systems challenges in how nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster communicate, and how data are indexed, allocated, and managed across nodes. What You Will Be Doing: Leveraging your deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generat

- **Id**: 3754671
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/elastic-principal-java-engineer-distributed-systems-serverless-elasticsearch-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T14:17:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T12:00:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6359
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Endpoint Security, Security Operations, Vector Search & RAG, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 4819
- **Name**: Elastic
- **Domain**: elastic.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/elastic>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 62
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.613
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Netty** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Belarus** — Iso: BY; Kind: country
- **Cuba** — Iso: CU; Kind: country
- **Iran** — Iso: IR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T16:31:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.379
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, evergreen, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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