Principal Search Engineer Elasticsearch

Location: Hyderabad Work Arrangement: Hybrid 2 days per week in the office

About the Role

Were looking for a seasoned and technically exceptional Principal Search Engineer to join our team and take ownership of Hylands search infrastructure at scale. In this role, youll bring deep, production-proven expertise in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch to architect, scale, and operate search systems that power real workloads not just dev environments.

This is a high-impact, highly technical role for an engineer who thinks in systems, operates with an ownership mindset, and is energized by the challenge of building search infrastructure that is rapid, reliable, and built to last. If youve spent years working at the intersection of full-text search and vector search, and you understand what it takes to run these systems under real production constraints, wed love to connect.

Your Role Responsibilities Heres What Youll Do.
- Design, build, and operate large-scale Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters in production including cluster sizing,



shard strategy, and multi-tenancy architecture to support evolving data models and real production constraints.
- Lead search infrastructure design and systems architecture, ensuring search workloads are optimized for scale, resilience, and long-term performance across Hylands product portfolio.
- Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response readiness across search infrastructure establishing monitoring disciplines and observability practices to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- Architect and implement k-NN vector indexing, embedding storage, and quantization strategies, integrating vector search capabilities seamlessly alongside traditional full-text search workloads.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate search across multiple products and repositories, ensuring consistency, quality, and a shared search layer tha

📌 Principal Search Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Hyland
📍 Hyderabad