Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Requirements

• Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space.
• Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing both technical and professional guidance.
• 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.
• Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with advanced data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features like lambdas.
• 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 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.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to Haves

• 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.

What You Will Be Doing

• Defining, leading, and contributing to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities.
• Researching advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
• Working closely with partners and product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic.
• Driving an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, query execution, and relevance layers.
• Being the go-to expert in several areas of Elasticsearch and continuously improving them through insights and instincts.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Matching financial donations and service hours for volunteer projects.
• Parenthood support with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.