We're looking for a Principal Software Developer I or II to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This globally-distributed, completely remote team of senior engineers is responsible for delivering the latest innovations in logs and metrics management.
\nThis role includes providing technical vision and direction for building solutions that provide optimized storage and efficient data querying and indexing. This role requires related past technical experience in addition to the ability to work cross-organisation.
\nOur company is distributed by intention. We hire the best developers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software. We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements.
\nAs a Principal Software Developer, you will lead cross-organisational initiatives to produce an industry-leading Timeseries solution offering. You will contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building data-intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you'll need to implement a data structure or algorithm in the code base. And there will be times when you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware.
\nYou will work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch. You will be an expert in several areas of Elasticsearch and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about them. You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts.
\nYou will work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself. You will write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
\nWe're looking for someone who has implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store and query Timeseries data. You should have strong technical leadership skills, work with a high level of autonomy, and be able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.
\nYou should have strong skills in core Java and be conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas. You should have a strong desire to optimise and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms.
\nYou're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software.
\nYou've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too.
\nBonus points if you've built things with Elasticsearch before. Bonus points if you've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
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\nThis is a principal software engineering role that focuses on enhancing the vector and keyword search functionality within Elasticsearch, covering the design and implementation of new search features, enhancements to existing search functionality, and resolving bugs.
\nAs a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search. You will contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you'll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure. Or find one and implement it. Sometimes you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware.
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\nYou will work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself. You will write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
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\nYou're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software.
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\nBonus points if you've built things with Elasticsearch before. You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration. You have experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives.
\nCompensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $159,800-$252,800 USD. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
\nElastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
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