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Principal Software Engineer – Query Engine, Database Internals, Elasticsearch

🔥 28 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $159.8k - $252.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Elastic

1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Logistics • Cloud Security

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 data-intensive enhancements for Elasticsearch • Research industry features, data structures, and algorithms to guide product capabilities • Work with partners and product teams to understand needs and develop a long-term strategic vision • Build and drive the technical roadmap for ES|QL and the compute engine • Provide technical vision and direction for customer interfaces, language syntax, and compute infrastructure • Serve as an authority on areas of Elasticsearch and improve those areas • Collaborate with user experience teams and customer-focused teams building solutions on Search, Security, and Observability APIs • Contribute to Elasticsearch using modern, idiomatic Java • Mentor engineers and provide technical and professional guidance

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading technical projects in data and enterprise architecture • Proven knowledge of 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 vision 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, 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 • 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 based on business priorities • Ability to drive decisions and results in a distributed team through asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication • Bonus: Experience with Elasticsearch, search and information retrieval, open source projects, source control workflows, and continuous integration

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock program eligibility • Company-matched 401(k) 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 • Donation and service matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) • Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave • Competitive pay based on the work performed • Inclusive and accessible workplace accommodations

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