Principal Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Overview

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This fully remote position involves collaborating with a global team to develop core storage and query technologies for observability workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.
• Drive initiatives to build industry-leading observability solutions.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on Elasticsearch's logs and metrics capabilities.
• Implement best practices for clean coding standards and architectural clarity.
• Act as a subject matter expert and mentor within the engineering organization.
• Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests within the global community.
• Write idiomatic modern Java code.

Requirements

• Ability to collaborate across functions and transition between various projects seamlessly.
• Strong autonomy in driving decisions and results in a distributed team environment.
• Experience using AI to accelerate development and optimize code.
• Proven techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
• Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus.
• Strong core Java skills and a deep understanding of concurrency primitives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on performance.
• Health coverage for employees and their families.
• Flexible work locations and schedules.
• Generous vacation policy.
• Financial matching for donations and volunteer hour grants.
• Parental leave of a minimum of 16 weeks.
• Participation in the stock program.
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with company matching up to 6%.

Location

This role is fully remote.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please visit the Elastic careers page or submit your application via the provided link.

Deadline

None stated.