3 months ago
Greece (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Lead Elasticsearch initiatives that improve search speed, relevance, and overall search capabilities.
- Build new Elasticsearch search features, fix complex bugs, and improve code quality and maintainability.
- Design and implement algorithms and data structures, including work close to the operating system and hardware when needed.
- Contribute to the technical direction and vision for vector search and search relevance.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineers and open-source community members on issues and pull requests.
- Write modern, idiomatic Java and guide projects from technical design through implementation.
Requirements
- Implemented novel vector similarity techniques on a large-scale search platform or advanced academic research in vector similarity information retrieval.
- Professional experience with search or vector databases and algorithms such as HNSW or IVF at scale.
- Strong core Java skills, including standard-library data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas.
- Ability to work autonomously, lead projects end to end, and guide technical decisions and implementations.
- Experience collaborating across teams, codebases, and distributed or asynchronous work environments.
- Experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
- Proven experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Preferred experience includes building with Elasticsearch, contributing to open-source projects, using varied source-control and continuous-integration workflows, and leading cross-functional initiatives.
Benefits
- €61.100—€96.600 EUR typical starting base salary range with no variable compensation component.
- Distributed work with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance and at least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent in donation matching and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
- Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace with accessibility accommodations available.
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About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.