Principal Search Infra Engineer - Core Indexing

Elastic; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching up to $2000

Volunteer hours (40 per year)

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. You will define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, shaping core search infrastructure across indexing, retrieval, and relevance.

The role requires deep expertise and cross-team collaboration across a globally distributed team. Join us in delivering fast, scalable, and intuitive software with a strong culture of consensus and incremental improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading large-scale search infrastructures.
• Mentoring engineers and guiding technical teams.
• Ability to define long-term technical vision for a core search system.
• Hands-on with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and contribute to core search and indexing capabilities.
• Research advances in search infrastructure to build efficient foundations.
• Collaborate with product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic.
• Bring experience from large-scale search systems to drive an innovative roadmap.

Skills

Search infra

Distributed systems

Java

Elasticsearch

Lucene/Solr

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Roadmap vision

Cross-team collab

Tools

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. You will define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, shaping core search infrastructure across indexing, retrieval, and relevance.

The role requires deep expertise and cross-team collaboration across a globally distributed team. Join us in delivering fast, scalable, and intuitive software with a strong culture of consensus and incremental improvements.