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Principal Engineer
Smartverify
Vancouver, BC
- $140,000 to $175,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
- Hybrid
We’re seeking a Principal/Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and development across our large‑scale SaaS platform. You’ll drive distributed systems design, event‑driven…
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Principal Solution Architect (Azure), Deloitte Global Technology
Deloitte
Toronto, ON
At least 7 years’ experience building production software, 3+ years as a hands-on architect or principal engineer.
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Principal Consultant – AWS Data Platforms & Agentic AI
Astra North Infoteck Inc.
Toronto, ON
We are looking for a Principal Consultant – AWS Data Platforms & Agentic AI to provide technical leadership in architecting, building and scaling next-generation enterprise Data and Agentic…
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Principal Software Engineer
Patch & Permasearch
Toronto, ON
- Contract
Strategic Change Management: Lead cross-functional transformationssuch as modernizing legacy architectures, migrating cloud platforms, or instilling AI-assisted development practiceswhile…
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Principal Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure
Equinix LLC
Montréal, QC
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Provides appropriate design solutions. Verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of architecture. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide…
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Principal Machine Learning Developer, AI/ML Platform
Autodesk
Toronto, ON · Montréal, QC
- $153,000 to $224,400 CAD / year
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Principal Machine Learning Operations Developer, AI/ML Platform
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Principal Data Engineer
RAVL
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Strong understanding of networking, storage, identity, GPU workloads, and security boundaries in cloud data and AI systems
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AI Solutions Engineer (Senior / Principal)
RAVL
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
- Contract
- Hybrid
…development scalable, secure, and repeatable. As a Senior or Principal engineer, you'll influence platform architecture, partner closely with engineering, security, and risk stakeholders,…
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Data Engineer Sr
Insight
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
…As a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator with deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, and intelligent edge, we guide organizations through complex digital…
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Senior Cloud Engineer
KData Inc.
Toronto, ON
- Contract
support our cloud engineering team. This is enterprise-scale platform work, not
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Forward Deployed Engineer
Urban Ridge Supplies
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
Proven track record as a Principal Data Engineer, Lead ML Engineer, or Enterprise Data Architect building and scaling distributed data and ML platforms.
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Principal Data Engineer – Databricks
Staffmax
Toronto, ON
- Temporary
Work Arrangement: Onsite / 4 Days in Office
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Principal Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch
Elastic
Canada
…private information more effectively - Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of…
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Principal Software Developer - Search Infra - Elasticsearch
Elastic
Canada
…private information more effectively - Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of…
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Principal Software Developer - Query Engine, Database Internals - Elasticsearch
Elastic
Canada
…private information more effectively - Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of…
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Principal Software Developer - Performance Tuning - Elasticsearch
Elastic
Canada
…private information more effectively - Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of…
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Principal Databricks Data Engineer
Astra North Infoteck Inc.
Toronto, ON
Redesign ingestion, transformation, and consumption patterns from HDFS-based architecture to Cloud Object Storage and Delta Lake
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Principal Data Engineer – Databricks
Astra North Infoteck Inc.
Toronto, ON
Principal Data Engineer – Databricks | Spark | Delta Lake | PySpark | Data Lakehouse | AWS/Azure
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Senior RACS Developer
Randstad Canada
Toronto, ON
- $65.12 to $71.8 CAD / hour
- Contract
As a principal developer, you will bridge the gap between complex legacy application code bases and modern enterprise integration layers. Operating within a collaborative project…
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Senior Cloud Development and Administration Specialist
Randstad Canada
Toronto, ON
- $63.85 to $70.51 CAD / hour
- Contract
As a principal technical specialist, you will bridge the gap between application architecture standards, security requirements, and scalable cloud deployments. Operating within an Agile…
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Senior Customer Engineer - Toronto, Canada
Cloudflare
Toronto, ON
- Hybrid
The Customer Engineer (CE) is the core driver of our technical go-to-market strategy: a trusted technical advisor and primary architect of the customer journey. You will bridge the gap…
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Principal Customer Engineer - Toronto Canada
Cloudflare
Toronto, ON
- Hybrid
The Customer Engineer (CE) is the core driver of our technical go-to-market strategy: a trusted technical advisor and primary architect of the customer journey. You will bridge the gap…
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Senior Data Engineer
Novisto
Montréal, QC
As a Senior Data Engineer on the Analytics Platform, you will build and own the data foundation powering Novisto’s analytics, benchmarking, and AI products. You’ll design the lakehouse,…
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Développeur(se) principal(e), Opérations de sécurité et intervention en cas d’incident / Senior Security Operations and Incident Response Engineer
Unity Technologies SF
Montréal, QC
- Full-time
Our SecOps team is seeking a senior, hands-on security engineer to serve as the team’s technical lead during Americas hours.
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Network Principal
Thales Group
Montréal, QC
- Full-time
Must have: 3+ years working with Palo Alto Firewall · Must have: 3+ years working with Cisco ISE

Elastic

Principal Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

Canada

$154,000 - $243,600 CAD

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Job details

Pay: $154,000 - $243,600 CAD
Posting language: English
Posted: Jul 20, 2026

Original job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data - securing and protecting private information more effectively - Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We're looking for a Principal Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This globally distributed, fully remote team of experienced engineers develops core storage and query technologies for observability workloads, including improving storage efficiency, advancing ES|QL query processing and performance, and optimizing data layouts for object storage.

This role is responsible for driving the technical vision, architecture, and design of Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of designing high-performance, scalable database or search engine technologies, along with the ability to drive technical initiatives across organizations.

Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best developers 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.

What You Will Be Doing

Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, continuously identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
Lead cross organizational initiatives to drive and build industry-leading observability solutions.
Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of Elasticsearch.
Drive continuous operational and system improvements by introducing best practices for clean coding standards, demystifying complex system behaviors, untangling complexity to bring architectural clarity across the platform.
Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) across key areas of Elasticsearch, acting as a trusted technical advisor and mentor to the wider engineering organization.
Work with a global community to triage, resolve, and review issues and pull requests, collaborating with domain experts as needed.
Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

What You Bring

You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
You work autonomously and can drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.
You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.
You bring a prompt-engineering mindset to know how to leverage AI agents effectively, using sound engineering judgment to validate results and recognize its limitations.
You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store, and query time-series or logs data.
You have experience with one or more data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Prometheus and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.
You have strong core Java skills, a deep understanding of its concurrency primitives, with a proven ability to design and optimize efficient data structures and algorithms.
You excel in a collaborative environment, actively participate in technical discussions, and work effectively across distributed teams. Because it's the best way we know how to build software.
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and collaborate with respect, empathy, and professionalism in a distributed team.

Bonus Points

You've built things with Elasticsearch before.
You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
You’ve worked on data storage technology.
You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.
You have past working experience with database, search engine, OS, or cloud service development.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$154,000 - $243,600 CAD

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster)

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other countries’ export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

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Responsibilities

The Principal Software Developer at Elastic will shape the design of the Elasticsearch storage and query engine, find and fix performance bottlenecks, and lead projects across teams. They will also advise and mentor other engineers and review code and issues with a global community.

Requirements

Candidates need a proven record of building high-performance database or search systems, strong core Java skills including concurrency, and experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Prometheus. They must work autonomously and communicate clearly across distributed teams, and use AI tools to speed up development while owning the results.

Skills

Java
Elasticsearch
ES|QL
Concurrency primitives
Data structures and algorithms
Search engine design
Storage engine design
Solr
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Prometheus
Time-series data
Logs and metrics
Object storage
Indexing
Serialization formats
Query optimization
Performance tuning
Software architecture
Code review
Git
Continuous integration
Asynchronous communication
AI-assisted development
Technical mentoring

Benefits

Health coverage
Company-matched RRSP
Stock program
Vacation days
Charitable donation matching
Volunteer time
Parental leave

Keywords

Elasticsearch
Java
ES|QL
Solr
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Prometheus
search engine
storage engine
time-series
logs
observability
distributed systems
concurrency
data structures
object storage
indexing
query processing
remote
principal engineer

Seniority

Senior

Perks

Generous paid time off
Parental leave
Retirement plan
Stock or equity

Tools

Elasticsearch
ES|QL
GitHub
Slack
Zoom

Languages

English

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