Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch is open at Elastic in Switzerland. Posted on Oct 22, 2026, and still on Elastic’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are on the lookout for a Senior 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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Elastic’s careers page.
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