Principal Elasticsearch Core Search Infra Engineer

Elastic; Lavamünd; Remote; EUR 120.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. You will define, lead, and shape the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, directing cross-team efforts with a focus on core search infrastructure, indexing, and relevance.

You will collaborate with product teams, use your deep knowledge of search internals, and mentor engineers while delivering high-performance software with autonomy.

Qualifikationen

• Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space.
• Mentor engineers, providing technical and professional guidance.
• Define a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system across teams.
• Hands-on with search/in‑dexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr).

Aufgaben

• Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities.
• Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
• Collaborate with partners and product teams to shape the technical vision for search.
• Drive roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, querying, and relevance layers.

Kenntnisse

Lead technical projects

Mentor engineers

Technical vision

Elasticsearch/Lucene/Solr

Java programming

Concurrency & data structures

Autonomy

Large-scale search systems

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Jobbeschreibung

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. You will define, lead, and shape the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, directing cross-team efforts with a focus on core search infrastructure, indexing, and relevance.

You will collaborate with product teams, use your deep knowledge of search internals, and mentor engineers while delivering high-performance software with autonomy.