Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Portugal
Full timeEUR 67,000 - 106,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Autonomy","Collaboration"]

Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities. You’ll research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms, and partner with product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for relevance, query execution, and indexing. As an Elasticsearch authority, you’ll improve key domains through deep expertise in Lucene and distributed systems, building high-performance Java-based foundations at scale.

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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities. You’ll research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms, and partner with product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for relevance, query execution, and indexing. As an Elasticsearch authority, you’ll improve key domains through deep expertise in Lucene and distributed systems, building high-performance Java-based foundations at scale.
Location: Portugal
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and lead the evolution of Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities.
  • •Research advances in search infrastructure, retrieval algorithms, and data structures to improve efficiency and power.
  • •Collaborate with partners and product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for search.
  • •Drive an innovative roadmap across indexing, query execution, and relevance layers based on large-scale search experience.
  • •Serve as a go-to expert in key Elasticsearch domains, continuously improving them through technical insight.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 67,000 - 106,000 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveVolunteer Time

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • •Proven knowledge building and operating large-scale search platforms and high-performance software systems.
  • •Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
  • •Strong skills in core Java, advanced data structures, and concurrency constructs (including lambdas).
  • •Experience defining long-term technical vision and guiding projects from concept to completion through cross-team collaboration.
Experience:SearchInformation retrievalDistributed systemsOpen source
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCommunicationAutonomyCollaboration
Tech Stack:ElasticsearchLuceneSolrJavaGitHubZoomSlack

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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