Principal Software Engineer II Elasticsearch Query Engine, Database Internals
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
What Is The Role
Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Analytical Engine team. This expert team of engineers is responsible for building new analytics capabilities in Elasticsearchs completely new compute engine and accessed via our new piped query language called ESQL. This is a principle software engineering role that entails using your vast knowledge in this space in order to define direct and build the next generation of ESQL capabilities. This role includes providing technical vision and direction for the customer/user interfaces and for the underlying language syntax and compute infrastructure. 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 engineers 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 Bring
As a full time Elasticsearch contributor you will define lead and contribute to the development of data-intensive enhancements. Youll research the latest features data-structures and algorithms in the industry to ensure were building the right capabilities for our users. Youll work directly with our partners and product teams to understand their needs and build out a strategic vision for the longer term. Youll bring your past experience in analytics systems to help build and drive an innovative roadmap for ESQL and the compute engine. As an authority in several areas of Elasticsearch everyone will turn to you when they have a question about that area. Youll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts.
Our globally distributed team of expert engineers is focused on the search and query (ESQL) analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch. This team collaborates closely with other user experience teams crafting a friendly user interface and with teams closer to the customer building solutions on top of these APIs (Search Security Observability)
Finally we write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
What You Bring Along
- Experience leading technical projects in the data and enterprise architecture areas. You bring a proven knowledge in building and running sophisticated technical infrastructures and engineering sound software systems.
- Experience mentoring expert engineers providing technical and professional guidance.
- Experience defining a long term technical vision for an area of a data-intensive application working across teams and organizations to collaboratively build the technical roadmap.
- Hands on experience with search and analytics solutions some examples may include Splunk SPL Elasticsearch Datadog Dynatrace New Relic
- Strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs as well as newer features like lambdas. You have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms.
- Working with a high level of autonomy able to tackle projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.
- Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch Solr PostgreSQL MongoDB or Cassandra and an understanding of how they work and why they work that way.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be supportive empathetic and trusting in all of our interactions. And we expect that from everyone too.
Bonus Points
- Youve built things with Elasticsearch before and you have experience in the search and information retrieval space and understand the constructs and theory behind it.
- Experience working with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We're the company behind the Elastic Stack — that's Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, we help people explore and analyze their data differently using the power of search.
