Principal Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Elastic, the Search AI Company, as a Principal Software Engineer to contribute to the development of data-intensive enhancements for Elasticsearch's new compute engine and ES|QL query language. Lead and define the development of new analytics capabilities, researching the latest features and algorithms. Collaborate with partners and product teams to understand their needs and build a strategic vision. Provide technical vision and direction for user interfaces and underlying language syntax. Leverage your expertise in analytics systems to build and drive an innovative roadmap for ES|QL and the compute engine. Become an authority on several areas of Elasticsearch, guiding others and improving those areas based on your insights. This role requires experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, and defining long-term technical visions.

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
• You have a 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
• Collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be supportive, empathetic, and trusting in all our interactions. And we expect that from everyone too

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
• As an authority in several areas of Elasticsearch, everyone will turn to you when they have a question about that area
• You'll 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

• 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
• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Elastic's stock program
• Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• Range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being