This role pays less than
54%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,050–$242,524
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$199k
versus about
$206k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Elastic
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$133,100–$210,600
across 91 roles with salary data.
Principal Software Developer - Query Engine, Database Internals - Elasticsearch joins the Analytical Engine team to develop new capabilities within a modern compute engine and the piped query language known as ES|QL. In this role, you will define technical vision, research advanced data structures and algorithms, and build out a strategic roadmap for analytics systems. You will collaborate across organizations to design user interfaces and underlying language syntax while mentoring other engineers. The position requires expertise in core Java, including standard libraries, concurrency constructs, and lambdas. Candidates should possess experience with search and analytics APIs like Splunk SPL or Datadog, as well as data storage technologies such as Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra. You will solve complex problems regarding data-intensive infrastructure by building high-performance, scalable software for the Elasticsearch platform.
What does a Software Developer earn?
Median $151475 from 90 postings across 16 companies.