3 months ago
Greece (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead Elasticsearch initiatives to deliver a high-performance, highly relevant vector database offering.
- Design and implement new vector search features and improve existing vector similarity functionality.
- Develop Elasticsearch software in modern Java, including algorithms, data structures, and concurrency-related components.
- Fix complex bugs and improve code clarity, performance, and maintainability.
- Build expertise in Elasticsearch vector similarity implementation and support search relevance improvements.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineers and open-source community members on issues and pull requests.
- Guide projects from technical design through implementation and coordinate cross-functional initiatives.
Requirements
- Professional experience with vector similarity, vector databases, and search platforms at scale.
- Experience using HNSW, IVF, or other relevant vector-search algorithms and libraries.
- Strong core Java skills, including standard-library data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas.
- Ability to independently lead projects from beginning to end, including technical design and collaboration with other engineers.
- Experience with several data-storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating in distributed teams.
- Proven ability to use AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and work autonomously across projects, codebases, and teams.
- Experience building with Elasticsearch is a bonus.
- Experience with open-source projects and different source-control workflows and continuous integration is a bonus.
- Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives is a bonus.
Benefits
- Distributed work model with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Elastic matches up to $2,000, or local-currency equivalent, for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
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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.