Own and evolve core Data In Flight services (ingestion, user and event APIs, identity, system events) with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost.
Lead the Elasticsearch strategy for our multi-tenant live user and event data: index and mapping design, shard strategy, and safeguards across shared clusters.
Design and enforce platform contracts (APIs, data models, SLAs, and usage limits) that let product teams move quickly while keeping the data platform safe and scalable.
Work across other data and application teams on initiatives such as Elasticsearch upgrades, guardrails, resharding, and event retention.
Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and reviews, turning operational learnings into durable platform improvements.
Mentor engineers on distributed systems, data modeling, and pragmatic use of Elasticsearch.

Requirements

Hands-on Elasticsearch expertise in production:
Supporting customer-facing features or platforms backed by ES
Designing schemas and queries for high-cardinality, multi-tenant workloads
Operating large clusters (capacity planning, scaling, incident response)
Multi-tenant platform experience:
Building shared data services used by multiple product teams
Implementing rate limits, quotas, and noisy-neighbor protections
Thinking in terms of contracts and SLOs, not one-off integrations
Strong distributed systems background:
JVM-based services (Scala/Java) and event-driven or streaming architectures
Comfort with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar), messaging, and caches
Staff-level impact and collaboration:
Leading cross-team projects from design through rollout
Translating technical decisions into clear business and product trade-offs
Clear written communication (RFCs, design docs, post-incident reviews)

Benefits

Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
Fertility & Adoption Assistance
Paid Sabbatical
Flexible PTO
Monthly Employee Wellness allowance
Monthly Professional Development allowance
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Complete laptop workstation

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Elasticsearchdata modelingdistributed systemsJVM-based servicesScalaJavaevent-driven architecturestreaming architecturecapacity planningincident response

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationclear written communicationtranslating technical decisions