Elastic · 4 days ago
Principal Software Engineer II - Search Internals, Lucene - Elasticsearch
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Scaling team, where you will define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities, ensuring the development of efficient and powerful foundations for users.
Cloud ComputingSaaSBig DataSoftwareAnalyticsOpen SourceSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities
Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms
Work closely with partners and product teams to understand their needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic
Drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, query execution, and relevance layers
Be the go-to expert for several areas of Elasticsearch, continuously improving them through insights and instincts
Qualification
Required
Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space
Proven knowledge in building and operating sophisticated search platforms and engineering robust, high-performance software systems
Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing both technical and professional guidance
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
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
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
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
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
Benefits
Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
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