Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
United Kingdom, United States
Full timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentoring","Communication","Collaboration","Autonomy","Technical leadership"]

Lead the evolution of Elasticsearch’s core search and indexing infrastructure, defining and driving technical vision across indexing, retrieval, and relevance. Partner with engineers and product teams to research and apply advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms. Bring hands-on expertise with Elasticsearch, Lucene, and Solr to build high-performance, scalable systems and serve as a go-to authority for key domains.

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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Lead the evolution of Elasticsearch’s core search and indexing infrastructure, defining and driving technical vision across indexing, retrieval, and relevance. Partner with engineers and product teams to research and apply advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms. Bring hands-on expertise with Elasticsearch, Lucene, and Solr to build high-performance, scalable systems and serve as a go-to authority for key domains.
Location: United Kingdom, United States
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities for Elasticsearch.
  • •Research and apply advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to improve foundations for users.
  • •Collaborate with partner and product teams to understand needs and shape long-term technical vision for search.
  • •Drive an innovative roadmap across indexing, query execution, and relevance layers based on large-scale search system expertise.
  • •Act as a go-to expert for key Elasticsearch domains, continuously improving them through insights and instincts.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems, building and operating sophisticated search platforms.
  • •Proven hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
  • •Strong skills in core Java, advanced data structures, concurrency constructs, and familiarity with newer language features like lambdas.
  • •Experience defining long-term technical vision for core search or retrieval systems and shaping technical roadmaps across teams.
  • •Strong communication skills for collaborating with distributed teams, mentoring expert engineers with technical and professional guidance.
Experience:Search and information retrievalDistributed systemsOpen source
Skills:MentoringCommunicationCollaborationAutonomyTechnical leadership
Tech Stack:JavaElasticsearchLuceneSolrGitHubZoomSlack

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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