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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic· Platform - Elasticsearch
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Hybrid (Greece)€73.3k - €115.9kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer to lead and define the core search infrastructure for Elasticsearch, focusing on indexing, retrieval, and relevance, and contributing to Lucene improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities for Elasticsearch
  • Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms
  • Collaborate with partners and product teams to shape the long-term technical vision for search at Elastic
  • Drive indexing, query execution, and relevance roadmap based on past large-scale search experience
  • Act as an authority in Elasticsearch domains and mentor engineers across teams

Qualifications

  • Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space
  • Experience mentoring expert engineers
  • Experience defining a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system
  • Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr
  • Strong Java skills and familiarity with advanced data structures and concurrency, plus lambdas
  • Autonomy to drive projects from concept to completion and collaborate with engineers
  • Experience with large-scale data or search systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration across distributed teams

Skills

Required:Search and indexingJavaDistributed systemsLeadership and mentorship

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Flexible locations and schedules
  • Generous vacation days
  • Donate matching up to $2000 or local currency equivalent
  • Up to 40 hours/year for volunteer projects
  • Parental leave minimum 16 weeks
  • Diversity and inclusion commitments and accessible recruitment process
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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