Principal Software Engineer (Search Infra, 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.

• Définir, diriger et construire la prochaine génération des capacités d'Elasticsearch, en fournissant une vision technique et une direction pour l'infrastructure de recherche.
• Collaborer avec des partenaires et des équipes produit pour comprendre leurs besoins et façonner la vision technique à long terme de la recherche chez Elastic.
• Rechercher des avancées dans l'infrastructure de recherche, les structures de données et les algorithmes de récupération pour garantir que nous construisons les fondations les plus efficaces et puissantes pour nos utilisateurs.

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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, 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
• 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
• Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing both technical and professional guidance
• Experience working with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
• 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