# Principal Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch at Elastic

- Company: Elastic
- What the company does: Power insights and outcomes with The Elasticsearch Platform. See into your data and find answers that matter with enterprise solutions designed to help you accelerate time to insight. Try Elastic toda... Backed by NEA and Amplify.
- Company website: https://www.elastic.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs?gh_jid=8162445&gh_jid=8162445
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elastic-principal-software-engineer-search-algorithms-elasticsearch/

## About the role

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.

## What they're looking for

- Professional experience with vector similarity and vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale
- You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as other features like lambdas
- You work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components
- You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way

Tags: Platform - Elasticsearch