OverviewRole: Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This globally distributed team 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.

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Elastic is distributed by intention. We collaborate across continents every day using email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. We write fast, scalable, and intuitive software, empower engineers, review changes, make decisions by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements.
What You Will Be DoingAs a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, you will define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities. You will research advances in search infrastructure, data structures,



and retrieval algorithms to build efficient foundations for users. You will work with partners and product teams to understand needs and shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic. You will bring experience with large-scale search systems to drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, query execution, and relevance layers. As an authority in several Elasticsearch areas, you will be the go-to expert for those domains and continuously improve them through your insights.
What You Will Bring
- Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space, building and operating sophisticated search platforms and high-performance software systems.
- Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing technical and professional guidance.
- Experience defining a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system, working

📌 Principal Software Engineer (España)
🏢 Elastic
📍 España