Principal Search Infra Engineer - Elasticsearch Core

Elastic; Sweden; On-site; SEK 831,700 - 1,315,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Parental leave

Volunteer hours

Donation matching

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This globally distributed group designs robust search experiences and drives the core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, and relevance. You will set technical direction and mentor engineers while collaborating across continents.

You will work on large-scale search systems, contribute to novel algorithms, and partner with product teams to shape the roadmap.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space.
• Mentor expert engineers and provide technical and professional guidance.
• Define a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system across teams.

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 partners and product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic.

Skills

Distributed systems

Search infrastructure

Mentoring engineers

Java

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Technical leadership

Autonomy

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Slack

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This globally distributed group designs robust search experiences and drives the core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, and relevance. You will set technical direction and mentor engineers while collaborating across continents.

You will work on large-scale search systems, contribute to novel algorithms, and partner with product teams to shape the roadmap.