Principal Software Engineer - Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch

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 Developer 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.

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 and 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: $159,800-$252,800 USD The typical starting salary range for this role in select locations is: $191,900-$303,500 USD