Principal Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

📋 Description

• Lead architectural evolution of core storage components, resolving indexing bottlenecks.
• Drive cross-organizational initiatives to build observability solutions.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on logs and metrics in Elasticsearch.
• Drive continuous improvements by promoting clean coding standards and architectural clarity.
• Serve as SME across Elasticsearch areas, mentoring engineers.
• Write idiomatic modern Java - Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

🎯 Requirements

• You can collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects.
• Work autonomously and drive decisions in a distributed team via asynchronous communication.
• Proven track record using AI to accelerate development, debug systems, and optimize code.
• Prompt-engineering mindset to leverage AI agents with sound engineering judgment.
• Implemented techniques to index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
• Experience with data storage tech (Elasticsearch/Solr/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Prometheus).

🎁 Benefits

• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous vacation days each year.
• Company matches donations up to CAD 2000 (local currency if applicable).
• Up to 40 hours/year for volunteer projects.
• Parental leave of at least 16 weeks.