Lead, Elasticsearch Search Infra Architect

Elastic; Norway; On-site; NOK 950,000 - 1,502,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation match

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This global group defines the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, focusing on core search infrastructure, indexing, retrieval, and relevance.

You will shape the long-term technical roadmap and provide expert guidance across teams. As a principal engineer, you will own the direction of core components, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product teams to deliver scalable

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Mentoring expert engineers with technical and professional guidance.
• Ability to define a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system.

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities.
• Research advances in search infrastructure and data structures to build efficient foundations for users.
• Collaborate with partners and product teams to shape the technical vision for search at Elastic.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Technical vision

Search internals

Java core

Concurrency

Autonomy

Large-scale search systems

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This global group defines the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, focusing on core search infrastructure, indexing, retrieval, and relevance.

You will shape the long-term technical roadmap and provide expert guidance across teams. As a principal engineer, you will own the direction of core components, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product teams to deliver scalable