Principal Software Engineer I / II - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch in London

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud‑based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role?

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer 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. This 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‑organization.

Our 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.

What You Will Be Doing?

• Lead cross organisational initiatives to produce an industry‑leading Timeseries solution offering.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building data‑intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.
• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
• Be an expert in several areas of Elasticsearch and improve those areas based on your questions and instincts.
• Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests.
• Write idiomatic modern Java—Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

What You Bring?

• You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store and query Timeseries data.
• You have strong technical leadership skills, work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end.
• You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.
• You have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms.
• You’re comfortable developing collaboratively.
• You’ve used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Bonus Points

• 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.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender perception, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals.