# Principal Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $159,800-$252,800 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8074819?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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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 Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This globally distributed, fully remote team of experienced engineers develops core storage and query technologies for observability workloads, including improving storage efficiency, advancing ES|QL query processing and performance, and optimizing data layouts for object storage.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, continuously identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.

- Lead cross organisational initiatives to drive and build industry-leading observability solutions.

- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.

- Drive continuous operational and system improvements by introducing best practices for clean coding standards, demystifying complex system behaviours, untangling complexity to bring architectural clarity across the platform.

- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) across key areas of Elasticsearch, acting as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to the wider engineering organisation.

- Work with a global community to triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests, collaborating with domain experts as needed.

- Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

**Requirements**

- You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.

- You work autonomously and can drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

- You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimise code, while still owning the final outcomes.

- You bring a prompt-engineering mindset to know how to leverage AI agents effectively, using sound engineering judgement to validate results and recognise its limitations.

- You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data.

- You have experience with one or more data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.

- You have strong core Java skills, a deep understanding of its concurrency primitives, with a proven ability to design and optimise efficient data structures and algorithms.

- You excel in a collaborative environment, actively participate in technical discussions, and work effectively across distributed teams.

- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and collaborate with respect, empathy, and professionalism in a distributed team.

**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.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- data storage technologies
- AI
- query processing
- storage efficiency

### Nice to have
- open source projects
- database development
- search engine development
- cloud service development

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