Senior Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

The Elasticsearch team at GitHub owns the infrastructure and code that powers searching Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, Discussions and more. We’re responsible for the creation and management of large‑scale Elasticsearch clusters (hundreds of terabytes of data serving multiple thousands of reads and writes per second). Our problem space also includes optimizing index creation, population, repair and reindex processes to ensure that indexes with billions or trillions of records are recoverable, correctly mapped, and can be restored quickly. At...