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title: Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch
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. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. We're looking for a Senior Software Developer 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. This technical leader is responsible for contributing 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. What You Will Be Doing 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. You'll identify and drive improvements in this area based on your questions and your instincts. Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself. Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java! What You Bring Professional experience with search or vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale. You have solid skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurren…
date posted: 2026-07-28T14:09:30.765Z
valid through: 2026-10-02T16:03:18.160Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: Java
skills: Elasticsearch
skills: Search Relevance
skills: Vector Databases
skills: HNSW
skills: IVF
skills: Data Structures
skills: Concurrency Constructs
skills: Lambdas
skills: AI
skills: Machine Learning
skills: Open Source Projects
skills: Source Control Workflow
skills: Continuous Integration
skills: Data Storage Technology
skills: Cross-Functional Initiatives
hiring organization: Elastic
job location type: TELECOMMUTE
applicant location requirements: US
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: USD
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 133100
    max value: 210600
    unit text: YEAR