This role pays less than
55%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$233,575
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$206k
versus about
$204k
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 Engineer - 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. This role involves defining technical vision for user interfaces, language syntax, and underlying compute infrastructure while building data-intensive enhancements. The successful candidate will research advanced data structures and algorithms to drive an innovative roadmap for analytics systems. Key requirements include expertise in core Java, including standard library concurrency constructs and lambdas, alongside experience with data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra. Candidates should possess a background in search and information retrieval, proficiency in using AI to optimize code, and the ability to lead complex technical projects across distributed teams to solve sophisticated problems within the search and query analytics space.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.