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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic Posted about 2 months ago $154K - $243.6K

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About the role

Canada only. Technical direction for Elasticsearch's core search infrastructure: indexing, retrieval and relevance, including work upstream in Lucene as a full-time Elasticsearch contributor.

Elastic describes a company that reviews every change and decides big things by consensus, so a principal seat here is persuasion as much as authority. Deep search internals are the requirement, not a nice to have.

Skills

Backend Java Elasticsearch Distributed Systems Search Indexing Query Optimization

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