Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Scaling team, focusing on delivering a robust search experience and improving search capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities
• Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to ensure we’re building the most efficient and powerful foundations for our users
• Work closely with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic
• Drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, query execution, and relevance layers
• Continuously improve areas of Elasticsearch through insights and instincts

Skills

• Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space
• Proven knowledge in building and operating sophisticated search platforms and engineering robust, high-performance software systems
• 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
• Strong desire to optimize and leverage the most efficient algorithms and search data structures
• 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
• 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

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
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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