Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Elastic as a Principal Software Engineer and contribute to the development of data-intensive enhancements for Elasticsearch's new analytical engine, ES|QL. You will define, lead, and contribute to the development of new analytics capabilities. This role requires experience leading technical projects in data and enterprise architecture, mentoring expert engineers, and defining long-term technical vision. Strong Java skills and experience with data storage technologies are essential. Elastic offers competitive pay, health coverage, flexible work arrangements, generous vacation time, parental leave, and a stock program.

Requirements

• Experience leading technical projects in the data and enterprise architecture areas
• Proven knowledge in building and running sophisticated technical infrastructures and engineering sound software systems
• Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing technical and professional guidance
• Experience defining a long term technical vision for an area of a data-intensive application, working across teams and organizations to collaboratively build the technical roadmap
• Hands on experience with search and analytics solutions, some examples may include Splunk SPL, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic
• Strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas
• Strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms
• Working with a high level of autonomy, able to tackle projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components
• Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and an understanding of how they work and why they work that way
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and contribute to the development of data-intensive enhancements
• Research the latest features, data-structures, and algorithms in the industry to ensure we’re building the right capabilities for our users
• Work directly with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and build out a strategic vision for the longer term
• Bring your past experience in analytics systems to help build and drive an innovative roadmap for ES|QL and the compute engine
• Improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts

Preferred Qualifications

• You've built things with Elasticsearch before, and you have experience in the search and information retrieval space and understand the constructs and theory behind it
• Experience working with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
• Elastic's stock program
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings