- We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Infra team. This globally-distributed team of experienced engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene
- This is a principal software engineering role that entails using your vast knowledge in this space in order to define, direct, and build the next generation of Elasticsearch capabilities. This role provides technical vision and direction for Elasticsearch's core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, and relevance, and requires deep expertise in search internals and cross-team collaboration
- Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software. We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements
- As a full-time Elasticsearch contributor, you will define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities. You'll research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to ensure we're building the most efficient and powerful foundations for our users
- You'll work closely with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic. You'll bring your past experience with large-scale search systems to drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch's indexing, query execution, and relevance layers. As an authority in several areas of Elasticsearch, you'll be the go-to expert for those domains, continuously improving them through your insights and instincts
Benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you're passionate about.
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving --- we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).
