3 months ago
Portugal (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives to deliver an industry-leading vector database offering within Elasticsearch.
- Design and implement new vector search features and enhance existing vector similarity functionality.
- Develop search features, fix bugs, improve code clarity, and implement algorithms or data structures when needed.
- Serve as an expert on Elasticsearch vector similarity, search relevance, and related implementation decisions.
- Own projects from technical design through completion and guide other engineers in developing needed components.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineers and open-source community members on issues and pull requests.
- Write idiomatic modern Java for Elasticsearch.
- Triage community issues and pull requests or route them to appropriate experts.
Requirements
- Professional experience with vector similarity and vector databases at search-platform 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 work autonomously and lead projects from beginning to end.
- Experience collaborating across distributed teams and codebases using direct, asynchronous, and transparent communication.
- Experience with data-storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, or optimize code while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Experience collaborating across functions and adapting to different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities.
- Preferred experience building with Elasticsearch, contributing to open-source projects, and working with source-control and continuous-integration workflows.
- Preferred experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Distributed work with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Donation matching of up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
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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.