Principal Software Engineer (Storage Engine, Elasticsearch)

Join our globally distributed, fully remote team as a Principal Software Engineer focused on the Elasticsearch Storage Engine. In this role, you will drive the technical vision, architecture, and design of Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine. You will lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, drive cross-organizational initiatives, and serve as a subject matter expert across key areas of Elasticsearch. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of designing high-performance, scalable database or search engine technologies and excels in a collaborative environment.

• Conduire l'évolution architecturale des composants du moteur de stockage, en identifiant et en résolvant en permanence les goulets d'étranglement en matière de performance.
• Diriger des initiatives inter-organisationnelles pour développer des solutions d'observabilité de premier plan dans l'industrie.
• Servir d'expert en la matière dans des domaines clés d'Elasticsearch, en agissant en tant que conseiller technique de confiance et mentor pour l'organisation d'ingénierie.
• The ideal candidate has a proven track record of designing high-performance, scalable database or search engine technologies, along with the ability to drive technical initiatives across organizations
• 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 excellent verbal and written communication skills and collaborate with respect, empathy, and professionalism in a distributed team
• You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes
• You excel in a collaborative environment, actively participate in technical discussions, and work effectively across distributed teams. Because it's the best way we know how to build software
• You have strong core Java skills, a deep understanding of its concurrency primitives, with a proven ability to design and optimize efficient data structures and algorithms
• 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 implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data
• You bring a prompt-engineering mindset to know how to leverage AI agents effectively, using sound engineering judgment to validate results and recognize its limitations
• You've built things with Elasticsearch before
• You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
• You've worked on data storage technology
• You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
• You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development