Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Search & Distributed Systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and scale Elasticsearch clusters, defining strategies for shard routing and data management
• Anticipate and mitigate failure points through design and implementation of fault-tolerant mechanisms
• Act as a technical escalation point for performance issues, managing the data lifecycle and optimizing ingestion pipelines

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a Senior or Staff role focused on distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of Elasticsearch internals and experience managing large-scale clusters
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, API Gateway architectures, and event streams like Kafka
• Experience implementing fault-tolerant patterns in microservice architectures
• Expertise in system observability and diagnosing performance issues using modern tools