Elasticsearch - Principal Software Engineer II - Storage Engine
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The Principal Software Engineer II on the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team provides technical vision and direction for the storage engine, focusing on logs, metrics, and timeseries capabilities. This fully remote role drives improvements to storage, indexing and query efficiency, contributes code to the Elasticsearch codebase, and collaborates across the organization and with the open-source community. The position emphasizes technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and working with a globally distributed team to deliver data-intensive features.
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San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
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Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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$152k – $203k
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