Principal Elasticsearch Search Infrastructure Engineer

Elastic; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 369,000 - 584,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules and locations

Generous vacation days

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. You will define, lead, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, focusing on core search infrastructure, indexing, and retrieval.

You will collaborate across continents, mentoring engineers and shaping a technical roadmap with autonomy. The role demands deep expertise in search internals, cross-team collaboration, and a proven ability to drive complex projects from concept to

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across teams.
• Define a long-term technical vision for core search or retrieval systems.
• Hands-on with search and indexing tech like Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr.

Responsibilities

• 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 products to shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic.
• Drive roadmap for Elasticsearch indexing, query execution, and relevance layers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Java

Search infrastructure

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Open source

Tools

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. You will define, lead, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities, focusing on core search infrastructure, indexing, and retrieval.

You will collaborate across continents, mentoring engineers and shaping a technical roadmap with autonomy. The role demands deep expertise in search internals, cross-team collaboration, and a proven ability to drive complex projects from concept to