Principal Software Engineer (Search Infrastructure, Elasticsearch)

Join Elastic as a Principal Software Engineer in the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. In this role, you will define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, focusing on core search infrastructure, indexing, retrieval, and relevance. You will collaborate with partners and product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic. This is a fully remote position with flexible scheduling and generous benefits.

• Definir, dirigir y construir la próxima generación de capacidades de Elasticsearch, incluyendo la infraestructura de búsqueda central, la indexación, la recuperación y la relevancia.
• Investigar avances en la infraestructura de búsqueda, estructuras de datos y algoritmos de recuperación para garantizar que se estén construyendo las bases más eficientes y potentes para los usuarios.
• Colaborar estrechamente con socios y equipos de productos para comprender sus necesidades y ayudar a dar forma a la visión técnica a largo plazo para la búsqueda en Elastic.
• 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
• Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space. You bring proven knowledge in building and operating sophisticated search platforms and engineering robust, high-performance software systems
• 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 mentoring expert engineers, providing both technical and professional guidance
• Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr
• 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. Collaborating across distributed teams is challenging, we value being supportive, empathetic, and trusting in all interactions, and we expect the same from everyone on the team
• Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with advanced data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features like lambdas. You have a strong desire to optimize and leverage the most efficient algorithms and search data structures
• 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