Elasticsearch - Principal Developer Engineer I - Query Engine, Database Internals at Elastic

Elastic

Canada·2d ago

InternFull-timeJavaRustAWSPostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearchGitAI

Salary Range

$19,890 - $26,910 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Developer Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Analytical Engine team. This expert team is responsible for building new analytics capabilities in Elasticsearch’s new compute engine, accessed via the ES|QL query language. This role involves defining, directing, and building the next generation of ES|QL capabilities, providing technical vision, and working cross-organizationally.

Key Responsibilities

→Define, lead, and contribute to the development of data-intensive enhancements in Elasticsearch
→Research the latest features, data structures, and algorithms to build the right capabilities for users
→Work with partners and product teams to understand needs and build a strategic vision
→Provide technical vision and direction for customer/user interfaces and underlying language syntax
→Improve Elasticsearch areas based on questions and instincts
→Collaborate closely with user experience teams and customer-facing teams
→Write idiomatic modern Java for Elasticsearch

Requirements

✓Experience leading technical projects in data and enterprise architecture
✓Experience mentoring expert engineers
✓Experience defining long-term technical vision for data-intensive applications
✓Hands-on experience with search and analytics APIs
✓Strong skills in core Java and data structures
✓Ability to work with high autonomy on projects from beginning to end
✓Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
✓Excellent verbal and written communication skills