Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Elastic, the Search AI Company, as a Senior Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch - Analytical Engine team. This role involves defining, leading, and contributing to the development of data-intensive enhancements for Elasticsearch's new compute engine and ES|QL query language. You will research new features and algorithms, work with partners and product teams, and provide technical vision and direction for user interfaces and underlying infrastructure. This is a principal software engineering role requiring experience in analytics systems and the ability to work cross-organizationally. Elastic is a distributed company that values collaboration and empowers individual engineers. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.

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 (e.g., 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
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy, tackling projects and guiding them from beginning to end (technical design and working with other engineers)
• Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and an understanding of how they work
• 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
• Work directly with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and build out a strategic vision for the longer term
• Build and drive an innovative roadmap for ES|QL and the compute engine
• Serve as an authority in several areas of Elasticsearch, answering questions and improving those areas based on your expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building with Elasticsearch and experience in the search and information retrieval space
• Experience working with open source projects and familiarity 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
• Company matching of up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave