Principal Software Developer – Query Engine, Database Internals, Elasticsearch

🔥 5 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $154k - $243.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Elastic is a skilled consulting partner specializing in cloud technologies, particularly with Amazon Web Services (AWS). They help businesses design, build, and secure public cloud migrations and environments, offering services in cloud migration, optimization, and security. With over a decade of experience and AWS-certified experts, Elastic aims to simplify the complexities of public cloud for their clients, ensuring smooth digital transformations.

📋 Description

• Define, lead, and contribute to development of data-intensive enhancements for Elasticsearch • Research industry features, data structures, and algorithms to build capabilities for users • Work with partners and product teams to understand needs and develop a long-term strategic vision • Build and drive the ES|QL and compute engine roadmap • Provide technical vision and direction for customer/user interfaces, language syntax, and compute infrastructure • Serve as an authority on areas of Elasticsearch and improve those areas • Collaborate with user experience teams to craft a friendly interface • Collaborate with customer-facing teams building solutions on Search, Security, and Observability APIs • Write idiomatic modern Java in Elasticsearch’s predominantly Java codebase • Work cross-organization with distributed engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading technical projects in data and enterprise architecture • Proven knowledge building and running sophisticated technical infrastructures and engineering sound software systems • Experience mentoring expert engineers and providing technical and professional guidance • Experience defining long-term technical visions for data-intensive applications and building technical roadmaps across teams and organizations • Hands-on experience with search and analytics APIs, such as Splunk SPL, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic • Strong skills in core Java, including standard-library data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas • Ability to optimize and use efficient data structures and algorithms • Ability to work autonomously and guide projects from beginning to end • Experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, and understanding of their underlying operation • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Proven track record using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes • Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects, codebases, or teams • Ability to drive decisions and results in a distributed team through asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication • Bonus: Experience with Elasticsearch and search/information retrieval theory • Bonus: Experience with open source projects, source control workflows, and continuous integration

🏖️ Benefits

• Elastic stock program eligibility • Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles • Generous number of vacation days each year • Matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service • Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary • Accessible and inclusive experience, including accommodation support during application or recruiting

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