3 months ago
Base Salary
$133k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead Elasticsearch initiatives that improve search speed and relevance.
- Design and implement new search features, enhancements, algorithms, and data structures.
- Contribute full time to Elasticsearch, including fixing bugs and improving code clarity.
- Advance vector search capabilities and search relevance across a globally distributed engineering team.
- Collaborate with global community members on issues and pull requests, including triage and resolution.
- Write modern, idiomatic Java and contribute to technical direction and vision.
Requirements
- Novel vector-similarity techniques implemented on a large-scale search platform or significant 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 the standard library, data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas.
- Ability to independently own projects from technical design through implementation and completion.
- Experience collaborating on software design, code, and APIs, including distributed or asynchronous collaboration.
- Experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
- Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects, codebases, or teams.
- Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives is preferred.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, open-source projects, source-control workflows, and continuous integration is preferred.
Benefits
- Distributed work model with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Up to $2,000 in matching for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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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.