Elastic

Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Canada · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$154k-$244kDetected 1 day ago

JavaDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewGitElasticsearchAccessibilityResearchCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

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.
This role provides technical vision and direction for Elasticsearch's core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, and relevance, and requires deep expertise in search internals and cross-team collaboration.

This is a principle software engineering role that entails using your vast knowledge in this space in order to define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities.
We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders.
As a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, 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 bring proven knowledge in building and operating sophisticated search platforms and engineering robust, high-performance software systems.
You have a strong desire to optimize and leverage the most efficient algorithms and search data structures.
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.

If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role.
You'll bring your past experience with large-scale search systems to drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch's indexing, query execution, and relevance layers.
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.

for this role is in the form of base salary.
This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.
These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.
We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

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.
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.

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