Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Ireland
Full timeEUR 102,700 - 162,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Autonomy","Collaboration"]

Join the Elasticsearch Search Infra team as a Principal Software Engineer to define and lead the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities. You’ll research search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms, collaborate with product and partner teams, and drive a technical roadmap for indexing, query execution, and relevance. Use deep expertise in Elasticsearch/Lucene/Solr and core Java to build efficient, high-performance foundations for distributed search.

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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Join the Elasticsearch Search Infra team as a Principal Software Engineer to define and lead the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities. You’ll research search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms, collaborate with product and partner teams, and drive a technical roadmap for indexing, query execution, and relevance. Use deep expertise in Elasticsearch/Lucene/Solr and core Java to build efficient, high-performance foundations for distributed search.
Location: Ireland
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities as an Elasticsearch contributor.
  • •Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to improve foundations for users.
  • •Work closely with partners and product teams to understand needs and shape the long-term technical vision for search.
  • •Drive an innovative roadmap for indexing, query execution, and relevance layers using experience from large-scale search systems.
  • •Serve as a go-to expert in key domains, continuously improving them through insights and technical guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 102,700 - 162,500 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeavePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • •Proven knowledge building and operating sophisticated search platforms and high-performance software systems.
  • •Experience defining a long-term technical vision for core search or retrieval systems across teams.
  • •Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
  • •Strong skills in core Java and advanced data structures, concurrency constructs, and efficient algorithms for search.
Experience:Search infrastructureDistributed systemsOpen source
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCommunicationAutonomyCollaboration
Languages:English
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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