# Principal Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Ireland
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €102,700-€162,500 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8162465?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## 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 Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search 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.

**What You Will Be Doing**

- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database 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 how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity in support of search relevance.

- Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests.

- Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

**What You Bring Along**

- Professional experience with vector similarity and vector databases.

- Strong skills in core Java and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.

- Autonomy to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end.

- Comfortable developing collaboratively and giving/receiving feedback on code.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.

**Bonus Points**

- Experience with Elasticsearch.

- Familiarity with open source projects and source control workflow.

- Experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives.

**Additional Information**

- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.

- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.

- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.

- Generous number of vacation days each year.

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.

- 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: €102,700-€162,500 EUR

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- vector similarity
- vector databases
- Elasticsearch
- Lucene
- data structures
- concurrency constructs

### Nice to have
- open source projects
- cross-functional initiatives

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