2 months ago
Remote, NorwayStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of Elasticsearch’s core search and indexing capabilities.
- Provide technical vision and direction for indexing, retrieval, relevance, and query execution infrastructure.
- Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
- Shape long-term technical roadmaps with partner and product teams across the organization.
- Serve as a technical authority for key Elasticsearch domains and improve them through ongoing innovation.
- Lead projects from technical design through completion and mentor expert engineers.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams using code review and consensus-based decision-making.
Requirements
- Experience leading technical projects in search infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Proven experience building and operating sophisticated search platforms and high-performance software systems.
- Experience mentoring expert engineers and providing technical and professional guidance.
- Experience defining long-term technical vision for core search or retrieval systems across teams or organizations.
- Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
- Strong core Java skills, familiarity with advanced data structures and concurrency constructs, and knowledge of newer Java language features such as lambdas.
- Experience with large-scale data or search systems or distributed storage engines, including understanding their underlying design and operation.
- Ability to work autonomously and guide projects from concept to completion.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with search and information retrieval theory and constructs is preferred.
- Experience with open source projects and different source control and continuous integration workflows 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.
- 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.
- Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
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.