Senior Software Engineer at Elastic

Title: Stack – Logstash – Sr. Software Engineer

• Location: Distributed, AMER

The Logstash project is an open source streaming ETL (extract-transform-load) tool that is capable of capturing data from multiple sources, reshaping and enriching, and pushing it to multiple destinations. It is structured around a set of more than 200 plugins and a core platform that wires these plugins together into one or multiple continuously processing pipelines. The project is written in a mix of JRuby and Java.

Our team is small and distributed across the globe and we communicate mostly through Slack, GitHub, email and Zoom.

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintaining and leading the development of the core platform and plugins into the future
• Lead the efforts of improving Logstash’s (and its plugins) usability, performance and robustness
• Engaging with multiple public GitHub repositories and community forums
• Caring for the needs of our users and enterprise customers
• Contributing to development process, improving tools and automation
• Collaborating with other teams to drive product goals
• Working together with the support organisation to help our customers.

What you’ll bring:

• Ability to work in a remote-first environment, which implies excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills
• Critical thinking, autonomy and being proactive
• Proven back end focussed skills preferably in Java and/or Ruby/JRuby, or a track record of developing distributed applications and willingness to learn an additional language.
• Experience with test driven development and/or software delivery backed by comprehensive testing, continuous integration and automation
• Experience in back-end distributed application development (cloud, orchestration, Linux/Windows services, etc).
• Knowledge of message brokers (like Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS), database technologies (namely JDBC), non-RDBMS databases (like MongoDB and Neo4j) and any sort data streaming technology
• Familiarity with typical programming support tools such as Travis, Jenkins, GitHub, Git
• 4+ years of industry experience.

What would help:

• Experience with JRuby and the rest of the Elastic Stack
• Front-end/UI experience (full-stack engineer with React/Angular)

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