Principal Software Developer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Canada
Full timeCAD 154,000 - 243,600 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Collaboration","Autonomy","Technical leadership"]

Join the Elasticsearch Search Infra team to define, lead, and build the next generation of core search and indexing capabilities. You’ll research search infrastructure advances, drive improvements across indexing, retrieval, and relevance, and partner with engineering and product teams to shape the long-term technical roadmap. As a domain authority, you’ll mentor experts, collaborate across a distributed organization, and build high-performance systems using core Java and search technologies like Elasticsearch and Lucene.

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Principal Software Developer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Join the Elasticsearch Search Infra team to define, lead, and build the next generation of core search and indexing capabilities. You’ll research search infrastructure advances, drive improvements across indexing, retrieval, and relevance, and partner with engineering and product teams to shape the long-term technical roadmap. As a domain authority, you’ll mentor experts, collaborate across a distributed organization, and build high-performance systems using core Java and search technologies like Elasticsearch and Lucene.
Location: Canada
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 efficiency and power of the platform foundations.
  • •Partner with product and engineering teams to understand needs and help shape the long-term technical vision for search.
  • •Drive innovation in indexing, query execution, and relevance layers using experience from large-scale search systems.
  • •Act as a go-to expert for key Elasticsearch domains, continuously improving them through technical insight and collaboration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 154,000 - 243,600 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePensionPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Lead technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems, with proven experience building and operating search platforms and high-performance software systems.
  • •Define long-term technical vision for core search or retrieval systems and shape the technical roadmap across teams and organizations.
  • •Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
  • •Strong skills in core Java plus data structures and concurrency constructs, including familiarity with advanced language features like lambdas.
  • •Communicate effectively across distributed teams and provide technical/professional guidance to expert engineers.
Experience:SearchDistributed systemsOpen source
Skills:CommunicationMentoringCollaborationAutonomyTechnical leadership
Tech Stack:ElasticsearchLuceneSolrJavaGitHubZoomSlackContinuous integrationData structuresConcurrencyLambdas

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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