2 months ago
Portugal (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of Elasticsearch’s core search and indexing capabilities.
- Provide technical vision and direction for search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, relevance, and query execution.
- Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
- Shape long-term technical roadmaps in collaboration with partner, product, and engineering teams.
- Design and build high-performance, scalable software for large-scale search systems.
- Mentor expert engineers and provide technical and professional guidance.
- Act as a go-to technical authority for several Elasticsearch domains.
- Collaborate across globally distributed teams using email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.
Requirements
- Experience leading technical projects involving search infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Proven experience building and operating sophisticated search platforms and robust, high-performance software systems.
- Experience mentoring expert engineers.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system and shaping technical roadmaps across teams or organizations.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
- Strong core Java skills and familiarity with advanced data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambda features.
- Experience with large-scale data or search systems and understanding of their underlying implementation and theory.
- Ability to work autonomously and guide projects from concept through completion, including technical design and collaboration.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with search and information retrieval theory and constructs is preferred.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects and familiarity with source-control workflows and continuous integration is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay with a typical starting salary range of €67,000–€106,000 EUR and no variable compensation component.
- Distributed work model with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Employer matching of up to $2,000, or local currency equivalent, for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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.