Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic
Romania
Full timeRON 326,400 - 516,400 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentoring","Technical leadership","Autonomy","Communication","Collaboration"]

Lead the evolution of Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities for a globally distributed engineering team. Research search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to shape efficient, high-performance foundations across indexing, query execution, and relevance. Partner with product teams to drive the long-term technical vision, mentor expert engineers, and act as a go-to authority on Elasticsearch search internals, including Lucene improvements.

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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

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Job Summary

Lead the evolution of Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities for a globally distributed engineering team. Research search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to shape efficient, high-performance foundations across indexing, query execution, and relevance. Partner with product teams to drive the long-term technical vision, mentor expert engineers, and act as a go-to authority on Elasticsearch search internals, including Lucene improvements.
Location: Romania
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities.
  • •Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms to improve efficiency and power.
  • •Collaborate with partners and product teams to 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 an authority in key Elasticsearch domains and continuously improve them through insights and guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: RON 326,400 - 516,400 annually
Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • •Proven knowledge building and operating sophisticated, high-performance search platforms and software systems.
  • •Experience defining 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 plus data structures and concurrency; desire to optimize algorithms and search data structures.
Experience:SearchInformation retrievalDistributed systemsOpen source
Skills:MentoringTechnical leadershipAutonomyCommunicationCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ElasticsearchLuceneSolrJavaGitHubZoomSlackContinuous integrationLambdasData structuresConcurrency

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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