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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter.
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This globally-distributed team of experienced engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities. You'll research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to ensure we're building the most efficient and powerful foundations for our users. You'll work closely with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic.
You will bring:
- 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.
- Able to work with a high level of autonomy, tackling projects and guiding them from concept to completion.
Bonus Points:
- 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.
The typical starting salary range for this role is: €67,000-€106,000 EUR.
Additional Information:
- 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.