# Senior Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Portugal
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €55,800-€88,300 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8161434?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

### Job Description

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.

#### 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.

- 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.

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

- Experience working with a high level of autonomy and taking on projects from beginning to end.

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

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

#### Benefits

- 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 you love

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

The typical starting salary range for this role is: €55,800-€88,300 EUR

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- Search Algorithms
- Vector Databases
- HNSW
- IVF

### Nice to have
- Open Source Projects
- Data Storage Technology
- Cross-Functional Initiatives

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