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Principal Software Engineer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch

Elastic Posted about 2 months ago $159.8K - $252.8K

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About the role

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

Deep search internals are the requirement rather than a bonus, and the team is distributed globally. Elastic ran the same role for Canada.

Skills

Backend Java Elasticsearch Performance Distributed Systems Search Indexing

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