2 months ago
Remote, RomaniaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the evolution of Elasticsearch’s core search, indexing, retrieval, query execution, and relevance capabilities.
- Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
- Shape long-term technical vision and roadmaps for core search and retrieval systems across teams and organizations.
- Contribute hands-on as a full-time Elasticsearch engineer, including technical design and implementation.
- Mentor expert engineers and provide technical and professional guidance.
- Collaborate with partners, product teams, and globally distributed engineering teams.
- Act as a go-to technical authority for multiple Elasticsearch domains and continuously improve them.
Requirements
- Experience leading technical projects in 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.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
- Strong core Java skills and familiarity with advanced data structures, concurrency constructs, and Java lambdas.
- Experience with large-scale data or search systems and understanding of their underlying design and operation.
- Ability to work autonomously and guide projects from concept through completion.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Preferred: experience building with Elasticsearch and expertise in search and information retrieval theory.
- Preferred: experience with open source projects and different source control workflow and continuous integration practices.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles in the distributed company.
- Generous vacation days.
- Elastic matches up to $2000 or local currency equivalent for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- The company supports distributed work across locations and schedules.
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.