About the role
The US principal posting on Elastic's storage engine team, and the highest band of the four variants. Technical vision and architecture for core storage and query, driving initiatives that cross organisational lines.
Indexing layouts, serialisation formats, resource utilisation, and ES|QL query performance against object storage. What changes at principal level is that you are expected to decide the direction rather than execute it. US remote, Java, fully distributed team. A proven record designing high-performance database or search technology is the stated bar.
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