Principal Software Engineer (Search Infrastructure - Elasticsearch)

Join Elastic, a company dedicated to building the world's best search experience. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team, you will define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities. You will have a significant impact on the technical vision and direction of Elasticsearch's core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, and relevance. This is a fully remote position with flexible hours and generous benefits.

Define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, focusing on core search infrastructure, indexing, retrieval, and relevance.

About Elastic

Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing both technical and professional guidance

Responsibilities

• Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to ensure the development of efficient and powerful foundations for users.
• Collaborate with partners and product teams to understand their needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic.
• Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space. You bring proven knowledge in building and operating sophisticated search platforms and engineering robust, high-performance software systems

Requirements

• Experience with large-scale data or search systems such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, or distributed storage engines, and an understanding of how they work and why they work that way
• Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with advanced data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features like lambdas. You have a strong desire to optimize and leverage the most efficient algorithms and search data structures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Collaborating across distributed teams is challenging, we value being supportive, empathetic, and trusting in all interactions, and we expect the same from everyone on the team
• Able to work with a high level of autonomy, tackling projects and guiding them from concept to completion, including both technical design and collaboration with other engineers to develop the necessary components
• Experience defining a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system, working across teams and organizations to collaboratively shape the technical roadmap
• Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr
• You've built things with Elasticsearch before, and you have experience in the search and information retrieval space and understand the constructs and theory behind it
• Experience working with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration