Principal Engineer, Elasticsearch: Scalable Search

Elastic Nv; Málaga; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Scaling team. You will define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search, indexing, and relevance capabilities, shaping the long-term vision across distributed teams.

You will mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions with product partners, delivering high-performance search platforms. You bring deep expertise in search internals, Lucene-based architectures, and scalable systems, and you will own

Formación

• Experience leading projects in search infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring expert engineers and guiding teams.
• Ability to define a long-term technical vision for a core search system.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.

Responsabilidades

• Define, lead, and contribute to evolution of core search/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 at Elastic.
• Drive roadmap for Elasticsearch indexing, query execution, and relevance.

Conocimientos

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Technical vision

Autonomy

Communication

Herramientas

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Java

Descripción del empleo

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Scaling team. You will define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search, indexing, and relevance capabilities, shaping the long-term vision across distributed teams.

You will mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions with product partners, delivering high-performance search platforms. You bring deep expertise in search internals, Lucene-based architectures, and scalable systems, and you will own