Principal Software Developer – Query Engine, Database Internals, Elasticsearch

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Lead, define, and contribute to the development of enhancements that are data-intensive for Elasticsearch.

• Investigate industry features, data structures, and algorithms to enhance user capabilities.

• Collaborate with partners and product teams to identify needs and formulate a long-term strategic vision.

• Develop and manage the ES|QL and compute engine roadmap.

• Deliver technical vision and direction for customer/user interfaces, language syntax, and compute infrastructure.

• Act as an authority in specific areas of Elasticsearch and enhance those domains.

• Work with user experience teams to create an intuitive interface.

• Partner with customer-facing teams to develop solutions utilizing Search, Security, and Observability APIs.

• Write idiomatic modern Java in the primarily Java-based Elasticsearch codebase.

• Collaborate across organizations with distributed engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience leading technical initiatives in data and enterprise architecture.

• Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining complex technical infrastructures and engineering robust software systems.

• Experience in mentoring skilled engineers and offering technical and professional support.

• Proven ability to define long-term technical strategies for data-intensive applications and create technical roadmaps across teams and organizations.

• Hands-on experience with search and analytics APIs, including Splunk SPL, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic.

• Strong proficiency in core Java, encompassing standard-library data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas.

• Capability to optimize and utilize efficient data structures and algorithms.

• Ability to work independently and lead projects from inception to completion.

• Experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, along with an understanding of their operational principles.

• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

• Proven ability to leverage AI to enhance development, troubleshoot complex systems, and optimize code while taking ownership of final results.

• Capacity to collaborate across functions and teams, seamlessly transitioning between projects, codebases, or teams.

• Ability to drive decisions and achieve results in a distributed team using asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Elasticsearch and search/information retrieval theories.

• Bonus: Experience with open source projects, source control workflows, and continuous integration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for the Elastic stock program.

• Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.

• Health coverage for you and your family in numerous locations.

• Flexible work locations and schedules for many positions.

• Generous vacation days each year.

• Matching contributions up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and services.

• Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.

• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

• Competitive compensation based on your contributions here rather than your previous salary.

• An accessible and inclusive experience, including support for accommodations during the application or recruitment process.