# Principal Software Engineer - Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Spain
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €80,400-€127,200 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We're looking for a Principal Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.

Responsibilities:

- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.

- Contribute to Elasticsearch full-time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.

- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.

- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance and identify areas for improvement.

- Collaborate with community members on issues and pull requests.

- Write idiomatic modern Java.

Requirements:

- Professional experience with search and vector databases, and relevant algorithms and libraries.

- Solid skills in core Java and familiarity with data structures and concurrency constructs.

- Ability to work autonomously and take on projects from start to finish.

- Experience with collaborative development and giving/receiving feedback on code.

- Familiarity with multiple data storage technologies.

- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and optimize code.

Benefits:

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days

- Matching donations and service hours

- Parental leave

The typical starting salary range for this role is: €80,400-€127,200 EUR

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- search
- vector databases
- algorithms
- data structures
- concurrency constructs

### Nice to have
- open source projects
- source control workflow
- continuous integration
- data storage technology
- cross-functional initiatives

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