Principal Software Engineer - Search Scaling - Elasticsearch Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Scaling team.

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. 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. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software. 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'll bring your past 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 areas of Elasticsearch, you'll be the go‐to expert for those domains, continuously improving them through your insights and instincts.

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. 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 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. 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. It doesn't m...

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