Principal Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch @Elastic

Overview

The role involves working as a Principal Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team at Elastic, a company specializing in search and AI solutions. The team is focused on developing core storage and query technologies for observability workloads in a fully remote capacity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components and resolve 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 bring architectural clarity across the platform.
• Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor within the engineering organization.
• Triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests in collaboration with domain experts.
• Write modern Java code, as the platform is predominantly Java-based.

Requirements

• Ability to collaborate and transition between different projects and teams autonomously.
• Experience using AI to improve development and optimize code.
• Knowledge of indexing, storage, and querying time-series or logs data.
• Familiarity with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
• Strong core Java skills with a deep understanding of concurrency and data structures.
• Collaborative nature and effective communication skills in a distributed environment.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and health coverage for employees and their families.
• Flexible working locations and schedules.
• Generous vacation policy.
• Opportunity for financial matching on donations and flexibility for volunteering.
• Parental leave of a minimum of 16 weeks.

Location

Remote, United States

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply through the company's career page.

Deadline

No specific deadline mentioned.