Description
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to the technical direction and vision for our search capabilities, including design and implementation of new search features, enhancements to search functionality, and resolving bugs.
Responsibilities
- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.
- Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.
- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.
- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance.
- Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests.
- Write idiomatic modern Java.
Requirements
- Professional experience with search or vector databases.
- Solid skills in core Java.
- Experience working with a high level of autonomy.
- Comfortable developing collaboratively.
- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development.
- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams.
Benefits
- Competitive pay.
- Health coverage for you and your family.
- Flexible locations and schedules.
- Generous number of vacation days.
- Increase your impact.
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.
The typical starting salary range for this role is: $133,100-$210,600 USD. In select locations, an alternate range may apply: $159,900-$252,900 USD.