2 months ago
Remote, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of Elasticsearch’s core search and indexing capabilities.
- Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
- Shape the long-term technical vision and roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, query execution, and relevance layers.
- Collaborate with partners, product teams, and distributed engineering teams across the organization.
- Serve as a technical authority for multiple Elasticsearch domains and mentor expert engineers.
- Design and build high-performance, scalable software with a high degree of autonomy.
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 and providing technical and professional guidance.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system across teams or organizations.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, or comparable search and indexing technologies.
- Strong core Java skills and familiarity with advanced data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambda language features.
- Experience with large-scale data or search systems and understanding of their underlying design and operation.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams.
- Experience with search and information retrieval theory and open source projects is beneficial.
Benefits
- Base salary range of €102,700–€162,500 EUR with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules at a distributed company.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Up to $2,000, or local currency equivalent, matched for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours per year 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.