Principal Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

  • $154K - $243.6K / year
  • Canada only · Canada (remote)
  • Posted 3 months ago

About the role

The principal-level version of Elastic's storage engine seat. Same territory, wider mandate: technical vision and architecture for core storage and query, and cross-organisational initiatives rather than component ownership.

ES|QL performance, storage efficiency and object storage data layouts are the named problems, all in service of observability workloads at a scale where a few percent of storage efficiency is a meaningful amount of money. Canada remote, Java, fully distributed team. They want a proven record of designing high-performance database or search technology.

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