Principal Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch
$159,800–$252,800 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, continuously identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization. Drive cross-organizational initiatives to build industry-leading observability solutions while introducing best practices for clean coding standards and architectural clarity. Serve as a subject matter expert across key Elasticsearch areas, acting as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to the wider engineering organization. Write idiomatic modern Java and collaborate with a globally distributed team to triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests.
Required Qualifications
- Proven track record of designing high-performance, scalable database or search engine technologies
- Ability to drive technical initiatives across organizations
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
- Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication
- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes
- Prompt-engineering mindset to know how to leverage AI agents effectively, using sound engineering judgment to validate results and recognize its limitations
- Implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data
- Experience with one or more data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus
- Strong core Java skills
- Deep understanding of Java concurrency primitives
- Proven ability to design and optimize efficient data structures and algorithms
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with respect, empathy, and professionalism in a distributed team
Desired Qualifications
- Built things with Elasticsearch before
- Worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
- Worked on data storage technology
- Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
- Past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development
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