Principal Software Engineer II - Query Engine, Database Internals
Company: Elastic
Location: San Diego
Posted on: January 4, 2026
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Job Description:
Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the
Elasticsearch - Analytical Engine team. This expert team of
engineers is responsible for building new analytics capabilities in
Elasticsearch’s completely new compute engine, and accessed via our
new piped query language called ES|QL. This is a principal software
engineering role that entails using your vast knowledge in this
space in order to define, direct, and build the next generation of
ES|QL capabilities. This role includes providing technical vision
and direction for the customer/user interfaces and for the
underlying language syntax and compute infrastructure. This role
requires related past technical experience in addition to the
ability to work cross-organization. Our company is distributed by
intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they
are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day
over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast,
scalable and intuitive software. We believe that the best way to do
that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change,
decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental
improvements As a full time Elasticsearch contributor, you will
define, lead, and contribute to the development of data-intensive
enhancements. You’ll research the latest features, data-structures,
and algorithms in the industry to ensure we’re building the right
capabilities for our users. You’ll work directly with our partners
and product teams to understand their needs and build out a
strategic vision for the longer term. You’ll bring your past
experience in analytics systems to help build and drive an
innovative roadmap for ES|QL and the compute engine. As an
authority in several areas of Elasticsearch, everyone will turn to
you when they have a question about that area. Youll improve those
areas based on your questions and your instincts. Our globally
distributed team of expert engineers is focused on the search and
query (ES|QL) analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch. This team
collaborates closely with other user experience teams crafting a
friendly user interface, and with teams closer to the customer
building solutions on top of these APIs (Search, Security,
Observability) Finally, we write idiomatic modern Java
Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java! • Experience leading technical
projects in the data and enterprise architecture areas. You bring a
proven knowledge in building and running sophisticated technical
infrastructures and engineering sound software systems. •
Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing technical and
professional guidance. • Experience defining a long term technical
vision for an area of a data-intensive application, working across
teams and organizations to collaboratively build the technical
roadmap. • Hands on experience with search and analytics solutions,
some examples may include Splunk SPL, Elasticsearch, Datadog,
Dynatrace, New Relic • Strong skills in core Java and are
conversant in the standard library of data structures and
concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas. You
have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient
data structures and algorithms. • Working with a high level of
autonomy, able to tackle projects and guide them from beginning to
end. This covers both technical design and working with other
engineers to develop needed components. • Experience with data
storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,
or Cassandra and an understanding of how they work and why they
work that way. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be supportive,
empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we expect
that from everyone too BONUS • Youve built things with
Elasticsearch before, and you have experience in the search and
information retrieval space and understand the constructs and
theory behind it. • Experience working with open source projects
and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and
continuous integration
Keywords: Elastic, Temecula , Principal Software Engineer II - Query Engine, Database Internals, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
