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 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 and approaches.
- 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 different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
- Experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives.
The typical starting salary range for this role is: 949,500 kr-1,502,000 kr NOK.
Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions.
- Competitive pay.
- Health coverage for you and your family.
- Flexible locations and schedules.
- Generous number of vacation days.
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 for financial donations and service.
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.