[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer I / II - Query Engine, Database Internals - Elasticsearch @Referral Board

Role Description

We're 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 Elasticsearch’s completely new compute engine, accessed via our new piped query language called ES|QL.

This is a principal software engineering role that entails:

• Defining, directing, and building the next generation of ES|QL capabilities.
• Providing technical vision and direction for customer/user interfaces and the underlying language syntax and compute infrastructure.
• Working cross-organization with related past technical experience.

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.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical projects in the data and enterprise architecture areas.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience with search and analytics APIs (e.g., Splunk SPL, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic).
• Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with data structures and concurrency constructs.
• Experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Requirements

• Working with a high level of autonomy, able to tackle projects and guide them from beginning to end.
• Experience with search and information retrieval space and understanding the constructs and theory behind it.
• Experience working with open source projects and familiarity with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.